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A carregar... The Search for Belle Prater (2005)por Ruth White
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. As a follow-up to "Belle Prater's Boy," now Gypsy and Woodrow are determined to find out what happened to Woodrow's mother, Belle. With the help of their school friend, Cassie, and the unlikely new friend, Joseph, a black boy they meet on the bus, and his aunt, Miz Lincoln, who is a little person. The book is more about he handful of small adventures they have in the process than it is about actually finding Woodrow's mother, but it's a fine tale, well told. ( ) Sequel to "Belle Prater's Boy." Woodrow's mother disappeared a year ago but on the stroke of midnight, New Year's Eve, Woodrow's birthday, a phone call comes in. No one speaks, but Woodrow is sure it's his mother. Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy learn that the call originated from the town of Bluefield and with their new friend Cassie, they take the bus to Bluefield to try and find Woodrow's mother. On the bus they meet Joseph who's going to Bluefield to find his father. Instead Joseph meets the midget woman who raised his father and it turns out she's seen Woodrow's mother who worked with a visiting circus. The folksy voice absorbs the reader. Woodrow and Gypsy, cousins, set out on a search for Woodrow's mother, Belle Prater, who disappeared over a year ago under mysterious circumstances. Along the way they befriend Cassie, a newcomer to Coal Station, Va. with second sight, and Joseph, a boy they meet on the bus to Blue Field, who is looking for his own family and who happens to be black. Warm and easy, a good tale to listen to. Belle is still missing and her son Woodrow is still missing her. In this companion to Belle Prater's Boy, Woodrow, his cousin Gypsy and their new friends work together to follow leads to try to understand the disappearance of Belle, and maybe even find her. While unraveling the mystery they encounter racial segregation, poverty of coalmining, and even a new friend who claims to have the sight. A very fun read.
Cindy Dobrez (Booklist, Feb. 15, 2005 (Vol. 101, No. 12)) Readers who have longed for a follow-up to White's Newbery Honor Book, Belle Prater's Boy (1996), will be delighted with this fine sequel, in which the search for Woodrow's missing mother continues. A mysterious New Year's Eve phone call on Woodrow's birthday leads him, Cousin Gypsy, and Cassie Caulborne, a classmate with second sight, to nearby Bluefield to follow Belle's trail. The journey away from their small Virginia town gives Woodrow his first glimpse of a "colored" person (a boy in the back of the bus, named Joseph), as well as what Gypsy terms the "hateful" segregation laws of the mid-1950s. The search widens as the trio agrees to help abandoned Joseph search for his father. Characterization, dialogue, and setting are among White's many literary strengths, and she doesn't disappoint here. The friendship between storytelling Woodrow and joke-cracking Gypsy just grows richer as Woodrow faces disappointment and finds hope. If the plot seems a bit tidy, White's young fans won't mind. Category: Books for Middle Readers--Fiction. 2005, Farrar, $16. Gr. 4-7. Starred Review Kathleen Isaacs (Children's Literature) Prompted by a mysterious phone call, seventh-grader Woodrow Prater sets out for Bluefield, Virginia, to search for his mother who disappeared from their mountain home without explanation more than 8 months earlier. In her distinctive folksy voice, his cousin and classmate, Gypsy Leemaster, tells his story. On the bus from tiny Coal Station, they and their new friend with second sight, Cassie Caulborne, meet Joseph Lincoln, the first black person Woodrow has ever seen. Joseph is looking for a family member, too, and joins them in their search, although the rules of segregation in Virginia in 1954 make this complicated. Joseph helps them discover why Belle Prater left and where she went. In a most satisfying ending, Woodrow finds out that his mother did not mean to abandon him permanently and has loved him all along. Author Ruth White deftly weaves in the setting--Woodrow’s home in the hollow, the coal camp called Lucky Ridge, and downtown Bluefield. Readers of Belle Prater’s Boy will be particularly happy to see this sequel, which ties up some of the loose ends of that book, but this book does stand on its own. The characters are well developed and enormously likeable. Woodrow’s good humor should attract new readers who will find themselves sympathetic to his situation and caught up in the adventure of his search and may, like the readers of the first book, clamor for more. 2005, Farrar Straus and Giroux, $16.00. Ages 9 to 13. Pertence a SérieBelle Prater (2)
In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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