This was a totally charming story. Birdie is a fun narrator who tries to help her family, be independent, and goes on adventures with Huck Finn of all people. It's also a well-designed story. I started the semester with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in my American Lit class, so I had finishe...
Another pickup at the local book exchange; great title (even if I didn't have some sort of long-ago family connection in Sleepy Eye) and I looked forward to seeing how a book written today would handle a teenager of 1975.So... mixed feelings about this. I think it partly fits in a category I've n...