Falling in the Garden
by Walter G. Klimczak

    FALLING IN THE GARDEN by Walter G. Klimczak
    Category:  Science Fiction
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 9+
    Release Date:  3/3/04
    Publisher:  iUniverse
    Reviewed by:  Marta Morrison
    Rating:  5 Stars


    FALLING IN THE GARDEN is a love story between two young teens that live fifty years apart.  Michael lives in
    the year 1999 and Ashley lives in the year 1946.  

    Somehow, Michael and Ashley can communicate with each other, first by radio and slowly by just being in a certain
    meadow by each other's houses.  They are haunted by each other and, ruled only by communication, not by seeing
    or being physically near each other, they fall deeply in love.  

    The rest of the story is the reason why they can communicate and how it affects them then and into the future.  
       
    I loved the language that Mr. Klimczak uses and the way we get into Michael's head.  Michael is a boy that I would
    love to meet.  He has had a lot of sorrow in his life but he hasn't let it eat away at him.  He lost both his sister and
    father in a car accident a few years before this story starts, and his best friend has recently moved away, but this
    doesn't stop Michael from exploring and being very loving and decent to his mother and grandmother.  He loves to
    read and write.  He writes exciting stories of adventure and of science fiction. He has many layers, which makes him
    a great character.  

    This was a short book but very exciting.  I thought it was a great story that made me think long after I had finished
    reading it.