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Title: Dancing in Cadillac Light by Kimberly Willis Holt, Kimberly J. Brown ISBN: 0-8072-6194-7 Publisher: Listening Library Pub. Date: 24 April, 2001 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Kimberly Willis Holt vs. Sharon Creech
Comment: Kimberly Holt and Sharon Creech both write of strong young female protagonists living in rural settings with eccentric and endearing family members. Following Zach Beaver and Walk 2 Moons, when I compare Holt's LA Sky and Cadillac with Creech's Ruby Holler and Chasing Redbird, Holt wins--hands down. She simply has a better mastery of this genre.
Cadillac is just a delightful story; chock full of eccentric characters and humor in a quaint, rural setting in the year that Neil Armstrong walked the moon. Time after time, Jaynell, the protagonist, makes you smile and chuckle with her one line "zingers" that speak her opinions on everything from "white trash" to her coquetish sister, Racine. The humor is perfect for the primary audience of children as well as adults.
The best zinger of all occurs in the second paragraph of page 137. Jaynell's parents have just returned from a getaway weekend of reconciliation and romance at the lakeside trailer of Uncle Floyd. Jaynell tells the reader, "Mama seemed different...even Daddy seemed to have a lift in his walk...Uncle Floyd had been right...there was nothing catching a fine bass wouldn't cure." Children will laugh but adults will find the word play in the last line and howl!
There is much for children to experience and learn in this story. Don't miss sharing it with your students.
Rating: 5
Summary: Dancing In The Cadillac Light by Kimberly Willis Holt
Comment: Dancing In The Cadillac Lights was a very well written book. I like the way that Kimberly Willis Holt describes her characters. For example, she gives a very good description of Jaynell. She tells that Jaynell is a tom boy and she is "not a girlish girl." The story is about a family that lives in a small town, Antler, Texas, and everybody in the town always hears everybody's business. Everybody in this family of four are the same, except for there is one oddball and that is Jaynell. One day Jaynell's grandpap becomes sick and has to move in with Jaynell and her family, and over the time that grandpap has to stay with that family, grandpap and Jaynell get a better bond that takes them closer together. So overall Dancing In Cadillac Lights was a good, even though it was short, but you could read it anytime.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tales from the "Piney Woods"
Comment: I can turn my head to the right as we pass a little grey shack on the new blacktop road and see a big green Cadillac sitting in the dirt driveway. Wonder how those folk can afford that, I might wonder as we whiz by. Kimberly Holt has the answers in her book "Dancing in Cadillac Light". The story, read in one sitting, swept me along because I know these people or maybe their "kin". Growing up in small town Louisiana and living in East Texas, I know first hand that Mrs. Holt has nailed this time and place down perfectly. That's what I like so much about all her books. They are about real places, and especially real people.
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Title: No More Nasty by Amy MacDonald ISBN: 0374355290 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 09 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Surviving the Applewhites (NEWBERY HONOR BOOK) by Stephanie S. Tolan ISBN: 0066236029 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Mister and Me (Puffin Chapters (Paperback)) by Kimberly Willis Holt, Leonard Jenkins ISBN: 0698118693 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 23 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: Mountain Pose by Nancy Hope Wilson ISBN: 0374350787 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt ISBN: 0440415705 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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