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Stories of a Louisiana Family
By Holt, Kimberly Willis
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80506-360-8
- Publisher
- Holt
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2006
Gr 7-9 This lyrical novel is actually a collection of vignettes that spans five generations of a family living in the Louisiana bayous. Beginning with Rose as a young girl who, in 1939, must drop out of school in order to help h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on November 1, 2006
In Louisiana in 1939, fourteen-year-old Rose longs to stay in school and become a writer one day. Because her family needs money, the closest she can get to this dream is to lie about her age in order to land a job driving a library bookmobile through the small bayou towns near her home. Holt's affectionate multigenerational portrait starts with Rose, then skips ahead eighteen years to Rose's thirteen-year-old son Merle...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
