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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
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Ratings5
Average rating3.4
Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.
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Surprised me - a tender coming of age story with an ending that may be a bit too pat, but is still heartwarming.
This was a very touching story that really tugged at my heart strings. It follows a pair of young children through a tragic accident which their father was killed and mother severely injured to a very different life in the mountains with their great grandmother. The children went from living in New York to living on a farm with no electricity and had to learn to get up early to tend to chores like milking the cows and slopping the hogs. They met some rough characters and learned some hard lessons but they also met some good people along the way. I'm glad I read this story and I appreciate the authors decision to look back at history and the stories of his ancestors. I agree, we need to learn from them instead of letting them fade away from memory.
