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There is no conversation between the Father and his daughter outside of the few scripted story events and a handful of optional story objects that can be found to activate new pieces of dialogue. While traversing the obstacles laid in front of you, the dialogue is surprisingly sparse for a game called ‘A Story About My Uncle’. The fantastic adventure he describes quickly unfolds into a solid platforming game where the player must travel from checkpoint to checkpoint in order to further the plot. In ASAMU the player must leap and swing through a series of areas, guided by the voice of a father who narrates the tale to his daughter in the form of a bedtime story. She's already named him Wishbone.A Story About My Uncle is a PC platformer developed by Gone North Games. But when she spots a scruffy stray dog on her way to school, she's determined to catch him and make him her own. Her aunt and uncle are in fact kind and loving, and a sweet, bullied classmate seems determined to look out for her, although she keeps insisting this arrangement is only temporary, and she'll be back home in Raleigh soon. She fears the worst-her best friend back in Raleigh told her to expect squirrel-eating hillbillies. Her dad ("Scrappy" by name and scrappy by nature) is in jail, again, and her mom refuses to get out of bed, again. Now she's in the last few weeks of fifth grade when she's sent to a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains to live with an aunt and uncle she's never met. She's been getting in at least one wish (she's not saying what for) a day, ever since she was in fourth grade. Charlie Reese makes a WISH on them all, and anything else anyone's ever told her was sure to make her wish come true. But as her wise and loving aunt points out, it's important to judge people not by their mistakes, but by what they do to fix them.įirst star. There are many moments where she does the wrong thing - like kicking a mean girl or making a cruel remark in anger. The local Baptist church - Sunday school, services, fellowship, Vacation Bible School - is a big part of the social fabric, though along the way Charlie observes that being in the same "church family" doesn't seem to keep people from being mean to each other. She befriends a neighbor boy who has no friends and is mocked by other kids for his disability (he walks with a limp). Older sister Jackie has been her main protector, but now they're apart social services has sent Charlie to live with an aunt and uncle she's never met. And mom never gets out of bed or pays attention to her kids. Dad (aka Scrappy) is in jail, again, for fighting, which he does a lot. Charlie's parents aren't what you'd call a family. Its angry, neglected 11-year-old narrator finds a better path in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, as she's slowly transformed by her aunt and uncle's love, a neighbor boy's friendship, and most of all by her bond with Wishbone, a stray dog she captures and brings home. Parents need to know that Wish is a New York Times best-selling story for middle-grade readers by Southern U.S.
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