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Original Title:	Alive and Well in Prague, New York
ISBN:	0061256706 (ISBN13: 9780061256707)
Edition Language:	English

Alive and Well in Prague, New York Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

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Title	:	Alive and Well in Prague, New York
Author	:	Daphne Benedis-Grab
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	June 3rd 2008 by HarperTeen (first published June 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fiction. Romance. Contemporary. Realistic Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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Matisse Osgood is a New York City girl through and through. She buys her clothes at Andy's Cheapies, watches indie films at the Angelika, and wouldn't be caught dead on a hayride. But when her father gets sick and Matisse's parents decide to leave Man-hattan for a small town in upstate New York, her perfect world crumbles. As Matisse trudges through life in Prague, she dreams of waking up in her apartment on West 78th Street with a father who's well enough to walk with her in Central Park and a mother who doesn't pretend that everything is okay. When rumors surround Matisse at school and her father's symptoms worsen, Matisse realizes that the friends she's making in Prague are the kind you can count on. They help Matisse find the strength to reach out to her father, who may not be as far from her as she thought. And one particular farm boy shows Matisse that country living is a lot more magical than she ever imagined.

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Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.comMatisse Osgood is the daughter of two well-known New York City artists. Life is good for Matisse. She's a city girl through and through. Then her father gets diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, and is told that he should avoid working on the sculptures that he loves, for fear that he may fall off of a ladder at some point. After much consideration, Matisse's parents decide that the best thing for the family is to get out of the city. To remove all reminders

Matisse Osgood is one of those kids who grows up in Manhattan and can't imagine life outside the city. But when her father's Parkinson's Disease gets to be too much, the family moves away from all that hustle and bustle (and the site of dad's now-stagnant art career) to the upstate town of Prague. It's the kind of place where people wear overalls and go on hayrides. Not so cool to Matisse.Alive and Well in Prague, New York conveys complicated feelings through simple words. It's a little book

Matisse is the daughter of two artists, who is definably a city girl. She loves everything about living in New York City. Then her father becomes ill and seemingly overnight the whole family's life changes. They move to a small town in upper New York State and neither parent is really working anymore. No one is talking about the changes.Matisse reacts by withdrawing from everyone, her old friends in New York, her parents, her potential new friends in Prague.This book is really about families,

Matissse has a hard time adjusting to life in a small town after being forced to move there from NYC. Not only has she made an enemy of the head cheerleader but this town thinks the idea of a fun night is...a hayride? To top it off, there is Matisse's hidden fear that someone will see her father. He has Parkinson's Disease and he's just not the same Dad he used to be. Lots of stock characters in this story, but Matisse is likable and her feelings, thoughts and reactions to her father's illness

More in likely if this book didn't hit home for me, I probably wouldn't have picked it up. There are so many stories about a girl from the big city that stumbles into the small town trying to find her place. No, I never lived in the city and had to move to the middle of no where. I acutally grew up in the middle of no where. But in this story Matisse's father has Parkson's Diease. And in my own life, my father has Multiple Sclerosis. Not the same thing obviously, but the effects it has on a

Alive and well in Prague, New York is a heartwarming story of a girl dealing with a family crisis and being up-rooted as the family resettles in a small town. She tries to keep the fact that her dad has Parkinsons disease a secret but nasty rumors start flying. As with many books in the teen reality genre the book explores the meaning of friendship as well as the challenges of coping with parents in denial. The other teens are not well fleshed out but they do have their own family problems that

Matisse's father had Parkinson's Disease and her family moved from New York to a small town called Prague. This book reminded me of the situation I had with an exchange student from a big city who moved to our small town. She dressed "funny" and ate "healthy" food and the other girls avoided her. As with Matisse, there was one girl brave enough to befriend her. Matisse had to slowly come to terms with her father's illness and the changes it brought to their family. Aesop's fable, "The Town Mouse