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Title: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman ISBN: 0-06-440684-9 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 31 May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Karen Cushman's Best
Comment: When I was nearly finished with LUCY WHIPPLE my teacher told me that I might be assighned to that book for a book report. But that would have been fine with me, because I enjoyed it so much that I would've been glad to read it again.
LUCY WHIPPLE is set in the mid 1800's, the time of The California Gold Rush. It is about a girl whos mother decides to move from Massachusets to California to search for gold. Unfortunately, Lucy hates the town (Lucky Diggins) they move to, and wants to move back to Massachusets.
This book was funny, original, yet it had some features that every book must have. LUCY WHIPPLE had some sad parts that made me cry. But all books must have something sad. Some authors don't write the sad parts very well, but Cushman did a fabulus job. The ending suprised me, and I'm glad Cushman chose to end it like that. LUCY WHIPPLE is definately on my list of "Books That Everyone Must Read".
Rating: 5
Summary: Karen Cushman Does It Again!
Comment: I'll admit it-since I'm in high school, I'm really quite beyond the "9-12" age range this book targets. But "The Ballad of Lucy Whipple" is just such great fun that the "9-12" categorization should be completely ignored.
Twelve-year-old Lucy Whipple is anything but happy. After her father and youngest sister die, Lucy's mother decides to move herself, Lucy, and siblings Butte, Sierra, and Prairie to a strange and savage Lucky Diggins, California that is right in the middle of the Gold Rush. Deprived of her grandparents, stability, books, and cleanliness, Lucy is desperate to return to her Massachusetts hometown and live with her grandparents. But then somehow, she begins to put down roots in Lucky Diggins, and it becomes more of a home to her than she ever thought possible...
"The Ballad of Lucy Whipple" is as faultless of a so-called "children's book" as you're going to get. Readers will find a lively and interesting heroine in Lucy, and while they may not exactly sympathize with her martyr-like attitude at the book's beginning, they will certainly want to keep reading to find out exactly what happens to Lucy and her family. Humor, tragedy, and everyday life are always attention-keeping in this book; Karen Cushman does a first-rate job of incorporating history into the story-making the historical info seem part of the story rather than simply a boring aspect of the novel. Finally, a well-done and thought-provoking ending cap off Lucy's chronicle.
In the same manner of her previous historical fiction ("Catherine Called Birdy" and "The Midwife's Apprentice"), Cushman effortlessly writes educational AND entertaining tales of ordinary girls in extraordinary times. This is historical fiction at its best.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Hard Way
Comment: Have you ever moved away from your hometown? California did. Or in this case "Lucy". She dosn't like the name or the place, neither suit her. "Lucy" moved from Massachusettes, her homestate to California because her father died. Lucky Diggins, California, anyway thats where she moved to. She wants to move right back to Massachusettes.
Then next thing you know "Lucy's" mom is running a boarding house, where the miners Lucky Diggins stay. Lucy does not like it one bit, but her mama don't care. It's loud and rude and so are they(the miners) They spit, asgentlemen will do, in the dirt. Then in comes another man, he's not a miner but a priest. Then he and mama get married. His name is Brother Clyde. He finds his head in his hands because he doesnt't know where to get married. But finally they figure it out, right there in Lucky-Diggins. What an adventure for Miss Lucy. Her mother and Brother Clyde are going to the "Sandwich Islands". Mama, Brother Clyde, Sierra,and Prairie (her sisters)are going to the "Sandwich Islands" but will Lucy go or not? Will her family come back home for her? To find out you should read this book, I guarantee you, you will like this book, cause I sure did.
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Title: Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman ISBN: 0440418224 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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Title: Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman ISBN: 0064405842 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 01 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman, Bryan Leister ISBN: 006440630X Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Rodzina by Karen Cushman ISBN: 0618133518 Publisher: Clarion Books Pub. Date: 20 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis ISBN: 0440414121 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 08 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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