I loved this book. It's a historical fiction, and I usually don't like those type very much, but I enjoyed this one. This book is about a boy named Amos, and how he grows up into a grown man after his mother dies. They travel the Oregon trail, and he suffers heartbreak, and looses people he loves...
Check out more of my reviews at:http://lovingliteraturemrsking.blogsp...I really had no expectations for When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt. I picked it up because a few of my students had read it this past year. Going in, I didn’t remember at all what it was about when I ...
A series of vignettes tells the story of five generations of a Louisiana family. The first is Rose, who in 1939 is forced to drop out of high school and get a job in order to help support her newly-single mother and siblings. The ensuing chapters tell the pivotal moments in the lives of her des...
Williams, BRACE YOURSELF FOR a dramatic ending to Momma’s story. One day Momma had been gone longer than usual. We heard from Mrs. Ronner before the sheriff called us. That’s how fast news travels in Rippling Creek. Mrs. Ronner’s son’s best friend’s cousin works at a Shreveport bank. His bank got...
She didn’t know Rick well enough to call him a friend, but he sat in front of her and once even defended her. When prissy Julie Stork wouldn’t lend Annabeth a pencil for a pop quiz, he’d said, “Jeez, what’s the big deal? It’s just a crummy pencil.” That small remark had made Annabeth like him rig...