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With a Name like Love

by Tess Hilmo (Goodreads Author)

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One of School Library Journal’s Best Fiction Books of 2011

When Ollie’s daddy, the Reverend Everlasting Love, pulls their travel trailer into Binder to lead a three-day revival, Ollie knows that this town will be like all the others they visit— it is exactly the kind of nothing Ollie has come to expect.But on their first day in town, Ollie meets Jimmy Koppel, whose mother i...more

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Published September 27th 2011 by Farrar Straus Giroux (BYR). Margaret Ferguson Books

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Nov 25, 2012 Barbara Langford rated it 5 of 5 stars

This realistic fiction tale took me back to my sunny, summer days of Southeastern Idaho. Being set in the late '50s took me back to days of my childhood where things are golden and happy in my memory. My life was permanent and unchanging back then, so to read of a family that traveled for a living made me almost jealous for some reason. It created a juxtaposition between my early childhood and Ollie's childhood. I am a bit jealous actually reading of the constant change in their life. It took me...more

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Nov 17, 2012 Abigail Perez rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book was amazing there isn't much i can say about it with out giving away anything but all i can say is that it DEFINABLY deserves the newberry award, and every award out there. This book is genius, it's sweet its funny, its everything that you want it to be. The main character Ollie Love (the daughter of the Reverend) is a extremely relate able person she is super smart, great with people and solves the mystery in the end! This book is extremely will written and i think this author Tess Hi...more

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Jun 15, 2012 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-book-challenge, 2013-beehive-nominee, fiction, historical, juv-6-12, children-0-12, character

A sweet, tender story with a bit of a mystery that was a fast read. I really liked the Love family. They may have felt like they came right out of a "Little House" episode, but I was certainly all right with that! I liked the natural friendship between Ollie and Jimmy. I was very happy that the Loves made friends with Mrs. Mahoney. I was shocked at how awful Mrs. Carter was. I liked seeing Ollie try to help Jimmy, and how her family (and eventually the town) took a stand.

The writing was nice and...more

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Mar 22, 2012 Melanie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: middle-school, fiction

Ollie Love and her 4 younger sisters are travelling missionaries for her father Everlasting Love who is a preacher. They travel from town to town, staying for a mere 3 days in each place to preach the gospel to those who haven’t heard. Ollie has gotten used to handing out flyers, setting up chairs, and singing hymns with her sister. Binder Arkansas brings much the same for Ollie until she meets a young boy named Jimmy. Everyone is telling her to stay away from him as his father murdered his moth...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Kermit rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: junior-fiction

3.5 stars

I like reading about a happy and loving family. There is so much family angst these days in children's literature.
Olivene Love is the oldest daughter of the travelling preacher, Everlasting Love. Mr. Love's father and grandfather were preachers; it's in the blood of this family. Reverend Love and his wife have a loving relationship, and they are wonderful parents. The loving interacations of the family in the book were just so darn refreshing.
Reverent Love, his wife, and their 5 daught...more

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Feb 02, 2012 Cornmaven rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: juvenile

Story about a traveling revival tent family who comes upon a town, wherein lies meanness, a woman in jail for a murder she did not commit, and her kid who is floundering as a result. Ollie sets her mind to finding the truth, and along the way young readers will learn some truths, none of which is particularly Christian, just golden rule stuff.

The 1957 setting allows Hilmo to portray the sisters as really innocent and super kind, although Martha has some spunk. The writing was good. The little tr...more

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Jan 11, 2012 Hilary rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: children-s-chapter-books, historical-fiction, first-timers, tri-review, young-adult

Tess Hilmo skillfully weaves a tapestry of richly evocative words. Hilmo’s descriptions of the cruelty endured by Jimmy and his mother at the hands of his abusive, alcoholic father, convey the horror at an immediate level.

The writing incorporates a spiritual tone without becoming “religious.” “Ollie” (Olivene) is the eldest daughter of a traveling preacher and longs for a settled home of her own. She weighs in on the small town of Binder, Arkansas in 1957, as a typical town that is atypically u...more

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Dec 22, 2011 Jackie rated it 4 of 5 stars

I'm a little conflicted by this book. I had read a review, and promptly put it on my list of requests at the library. I particularly like to read things by local authors - and I'm glad this one made it into hardback.

And I really did like the book. Some things just didn't feel quite right to me. Even though the book was essentially a mystery, and a story about loving others and doing what is right, some of the characters were just a little too perfect for me. Susanna and the Reverend weren't quit...more

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Nov 10, 2011 Barbara rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: bullies, ncbla

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The oldest daughter of a traveling preacher man, Olivene Love longs for a home of her own. When the family pulls into the small town of Binder, Arkansas in 1957, she gets involved in a murder mystery involving a boy named Jimmy Koppel who collects and befriends frogs. With his abusive and bullying father dead and his mother in jail for confessing to his murder, Jimmy is drawn to the Love family, and Ollie is drawn to help Jimmy. But the town's citizens have turned against the Koppels for reasons...more

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Jul 05, 2011 Paige rated it 5 of 5 stars

When Ollie’s daddy, the Reverend Everlasting Love, pulls their travel trailer into Binder to lead a three-day revival, Ollie knows that this town will be like all the others they visit— it is exactly the kind of nothing Ollie has come to expect.

From the first page of this book, I really felt like I was in Binder, Arkansas. "Fields of soft green barley laid themselves out across the earth in perfect rows--as if God had reached down and combed them just so." Hilmo's descriptive language is beauti...more When Ollie’s daddy, the Reverend Everlasting Love, pulls their travel trailer into Binder to lead a three-day revival, Ollie knows that this town will be like all the others they visit— it is exactly the kind of nothing Ollie has come to expect.

From the first page of this book, I really felt like I was in Binder, Arkansas. "Fields of soft green barley laid themselves out across the earth in perfect rows--as if God had reached down and combed them just so." Hilmo's descriptive language is beautiful and helps the reader picture the scene. Although Binder is not a town that takes too kindly to visitors. They are not all friendly, especially the shopkeeper Mrs. Carter, who did everything she could to make them feel unwelcome in town. "Folks 'round here don't take kindly to strangers with too many questions."

Ollie meets Jimmy Koppel, a boy who could really use some love, and some help. His mother is in jail for murdering his no good father. Jimmy insists that his mother is innocent, and Ollie believes him. Still, even if she can convince her daddy to stay in town, how can two kids free a grown woman who has signed a confession? Ollie’s longing for a friend and her daddy’s penchant for searching out lost souls prove to be a formidable force in this tiny town where everyone seems bent on judging and jailing without a trial.

This story is a wonderful page turner. While I really wanted to find out what was going to happen, I was pulled in even more by the characters. There's the preacher, who was pretty much destined to go into the ministry with the name of Everlasting Love. And his lovely and caring wife Susannah, who somehow manages to support and assist her husband in his calling, even though it means constantly traveling and living on the road, without the wonderful "modern" conveniences of 1957 available to the townsfolk. In fact, when the family visits a new friend in town, the five year old sister exclaims, "She's got a flusher! And honest-to-goodness flusher!"

The five sisters have a wonderful sisterly relationship. Thirteen year old Ollie and her twelve year old sister Martha seemed to have an especially hard time getting along with each other. Just like my own three daughters do. But even among the bickering, these sisters try to take care of each other, and to help others as well.

Without giving away too much of the story, I have to say that Mrs. Mahoney was my favorite character. She becomes like a grandmother to the girls, one who is willing to share her life and her home with strangers she has just met. I would love to be more like Mrs. Mahoney in my own life.

Written for the middle grade audience, this story is sweet and simple, yet beautifully written. The imagery and language style are well crafted and wonderful. It's easy enough for a young person to understand, but interesting and compelling enough for adults to find it a wonderful book, too. Not an easy thing to do, especially on a debut novel. In a time when so many books geared for young people are all about the fantastic, the violent, or the vampires, this book is like a breath of fresh air. It's a well written and charming story that is clean and unoffensive. I could recommend it to both my daughters and my mother.(less)

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May 30, 2011 Augusta Scattergood added it

So many terrific things to say about this debut novel. First of all, it's really a page-turner. Ollie's family (her daddy is an itinerant preacher and mom and siblings have their roles to play) lands in Arkansas for a 3-day revival. There's something downright unfriendly in the town. There's a boy in trouble, and Ollie seems like the kind of girl who goes looking for trouble. She's a terrifically appealing, strong, funny character. Lots of well-drawn characters, like Mrs. Esther Carter, town mer...more

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Jul 15, 2012 Terri rated it 4 of 5 stars

"With a Name Like Love," Tess Hilmo's debut novel, received strong editorial reviews and appears on many "best" lists for the past year. This work of historical fiction has middle school appeal and will satisfy those looking for Christian fiction. The mystery elements will draw in another set of readers as well.

Hilmo begins by establishing time (Summer, 1957) and place (Binder, Arkansas). Interestingly enough, this is my one beef about "With a Name Like Love." While Hilmo tells us that the story...more "With a Name Like Love," Tess Hilmo's debut novel, received strong editorial reviews and appears on many "best" lists for the past year. This work of historical fiction has middle school appeal and will satisfy those looking for Christian fiction. The mystery elements will draw in another set of readers as well.

Hilmo begins by establishing time (Summer, 1957) and place (Binder, Arkansas). Interestingly enough, this is my one beef about "With a Name Like Love." While Hilmo tells us that the story takes place in 1957 in Arkansas, it felt more like 1930's Arkansas. I wish that she had done more to in terms of historical details to create the time and the place. I kept asking myself if there were really traveling revivalists during this time period. I could find little about it in doing some quick research. Did they really use the term "bloomers" in the late 1950s'? The time period just didn't feel right to me.

As the story begins, the family of tent revivalist Everlasting Love arrives in another small southern town to set up shop with the intention of moving on once three days are up. Twelve year old Ollie is at the age where she longs for friends and a place to call "home." When she meets Jimmy Koppel, a scraggly smelly boy her age, she and her family find reason to stay put - at least for awhile. Jimmy's abusive father has been murdered, and his mother is being held in the local jail for confessing to the crime. It soon becomes clear that something is not right in Binder. Ollie convinces her father that Jimmy is in need of friends who will get to the truth of his father's death. Though I would term this book a "quiet" book, the reader is compelled by believable characters and a fast moving plot. I did not see the climax coming, and it moved me to tears.

I am not generally one who enjoys books that preach Chrisitanity - and this book, naturally, does preach. However, the lessons here are more about humanity, and community, and family, and friendship - universal ideas that are particular to no one religion. As a result, I found the lessons here to be more than palatable. And the round, realistic characters - both the protagonists and the antagonists - made me believe in them and their messages. I found this book to be simple and moving. I cared what happened to the Love and Koppel families.

Highly recommended for lovers of books like "Moon over Manifest," "Out of the Dust," and "To Kill a Mockingbird."

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May 18, 2012 Josiah rated it 2 of 5 stars

"Be careful when you listen to people called they... They often tell lies."

—Reverend Love, With a Name Like Love, P. 15

"But some people are broken. They don't know anything other than hatred... It's like their heart gets going in the wrong direction early on in life, and they can never quite manage to bring it back around to love. It's a sad thing and we should have compassion for them. Think of the joy they are missing in life."

—Reverend Love, P. 208

With a Name Like Love is truly one of the...more "Be careful when you listen to people called they... They often tell lies."

—Reverend Love, With a Name Like Love, P. 15

"But some people are broken. They don't know anything other than hatred... It's like their heart gets going in the wrong direction early on in life, and they can never quite manage to bring it back around to love. It's a sad thing and we should have compassion for them. Think of the joy they are missing in life."

—Reverend Love, P. 208

With a Name Like Love is truly one of the sturdier, more sincere titles to debut in the year 2011. It centers on a family whose shared cause is to spread the Christian faith as domestic missionaries, caravanning all across the U.S. of 1957 to disseminate the seeds of the gospel to the general populace for no more pay than what they collect in gifts at their portable sermon sites, with nothing duplicitous or dark going on behind it at all. Reverend Love is as kind and honest as his name and disposition would indicate, and his family generally follows his example, sacrificing the benefits of a normal life to bring the word of God to a wide variety of spiritual seekers. While there's plenty of drama in this story, it doesn't come about as a result of any kind of religious scam or a pastor who doesn't practice the lessons he preaches. Most of the drama stems from the mystery of the murder of an abusive husband and father in a town in which the Loves stop to preach, and the attempts that this traveling family make to nail down the identity of the real killer and free the woman being mistakenly jailed, all before having to hit the road again to evangelize in another town.

Olivene (Ollie), the oldest of five daughters in the Love family, has been less and less keen on the idea of traveling the preaching circuit as she's grown toward adolescence. Now thirteen years old, the parts of life on the road that she may have once found charming are more of an annoyance, and she has little space for privacy inside the portable trailer that her family calls home. Ollie is about to find out that 1957 is destined to be a year of major change for her, though, when her family's trailer pulls into the small town of Binder, Arkansas for a three-day revival. What was supposed to be just another stop along the road quickly morphs into a deep and involving mystery when Ollie learns that the mother of a boy in town, Jimmy Koppel, has been arrested for the murder of the boy's father, and is scheduled for removal to the state prison any day now. Even such a violent and disturbing case as this, startling as it might be, wouldn't have much to do with Ollie were it not for the fact that it becomes clear to her after only a few minutes of conversation with Jimmy that his mother is not the killer, yet there's no one around who's willing to help prove her innocence. To most of the people in Binder, a Koppel of any kind is a bad seed, and they have no qualms about sending Jimmy's mother up the river, guilty or not.

Ollie befriends Jimmy quickly, and desperately wants to help him in his terrible situation, but how much can she do on her own in just three days? If something doesn't happen really quickly, Jimmy is going to be a virtual orphan inside of a week, sent off from the only home he's ever known to live with an aunt that he's never even met. Ollie knows that the type of Christian her daddy raised her to be isn't one who walks away from a situation when help is needed most, but time is ticking and allies are few as the number of days allotted the Loves for their stay in town dwindles, and Jimmy's mother moves another few hours closer to being shipped off to prison. If Ollie can somehow get her father to agree to an extension of their stay, maybe there will still be hope that the family can work to exonerate Jimmy's mother before the deadline, but how are they supposed to find new evidence in the case when even the sheriff is set against them, and almost no one outside of their family believes that the wrong person is being punished? Maybe the answers have been in plain sight for Ollie the entire time, if she can figure out the right way to look at the situation and the logical motive for a killer that few would have guessed...

In the creation of With a Name Like Love, her first published novel, Tess Hilmo shows a lot of promise in the field of juvenile literature. There are some elements of this story that compare favorably with books that have won the Newbery Medal, such as the innate sense of thoughtfulness among the main characters, often expressed in their conversations, that marks many of the very best Newbery books. I look forward to more of what Tess Hilmo has to offer, and I certainly would rate With a Name Like Love as two and a half stars.(less)

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Jul 02, 2012 Lisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: tag-2012-13, ya-2011

Olivene "Ollie" Love is the eldest daughter of five of a traveling preacher. In the small town of Binder, Arkansas for a three day revival, a chance encounter with a scruffy, skinny boy changes everything. Jimmy's mother sits in jail for confessing to murdering her no good, no account husband. She is set to be transferred to Little Rock and Jimmy will be sent to live with an aunt he's never heard of. Ollie yearns for a proper home with electricity, ice cubes, flushing toilets, and a washing mach...more

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Nov 10, 2011 Jan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Thirteen-year-old Olivene Love is the oldest daughter of the Reverend Everlasting Love. For as long as she can remember, her family has traveled through the South, staying in small towns for just three days to hold tent revival meetings. At their current stop, Ollie soon discovers that this small town is a bit different than others she's been in. There is hatred and anger and cruelty, and Ollie can't figure out how she can solve the biggest problem she's ever seen. Can she talk her father into s...more

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Dec 03, 2011 Patricia J. O'Brien rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is what might be known as a quiet book--a middle grade, historical fiction about a girl whose father is a traveling preacher. I usually read YA or adult fantasy/dystopian but, I was drawn in completely to Ollie's world and her huge heart and courage. And even though Tess Hilmo's writing is rich in detail and atmosphere, a sense of urgency and danger begins early and stays through the story.
I like that this book is never preachy, despite being about a family who travel from town to town to s...more

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Mar 07, 2012 Stevecrandell rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: grades-5-8, middle-school-girls, mystery, religion

This story seems almost too nice at first. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” pared down to a mid-20th-century middle school homily. There’s a questionable murder, and a strong-willed girl who gets caught in the legal tangles. Then there’s her father the circuit preacher, who stands tall as the most pure-hearted life-affirming soul imaginable. And his name? Everlasting Love.

Hilmo is slightly more subtle with the rest of her characters. The most cold-hearted of the townsfolk are labeled at first introduct...more

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Sep 25, 2011 Amanda Snow rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, middle-grade, review-copy

Originally published at www.apatchworkofbooks.com

13 year old Ollie is used to living on the road. Her daddy, Reverend Everlasting Love, is a preacher, leading tent revivals all across the country for a living. Ollie, along with her parents and sisters, live in the travel trailer they pull along from town to town, being homeschooled and teaching the country about God.

When the family arrives in Binder, Arkansas, Ollie expects the three days to be like every other revival time. Passing out flyers,...more Originally published at www.apatchworkofbooks.com

13 year old Ollie is used to living on the road. Her daddy, Reverend Everlasting Love, is a preacher, leading tent revivals all across the country for a living. Ollie, along with her parents and sisters, live in the travel trailer they pull along from town to town, being homeschooled and teaching the country about God.

When the family arrives in Binder, Arkansas, Ollie expects the three days to be like every other revival time. Passing out flyers, singing, collecting the offering, and packing up. However, she meets Jimmy Koppel, a troubled boy whose mother is in jail for murdering his father. Jimmy knows his mother didn't commit the crime and Ollie wholeheartedly believes him.

Convinced her family needs to help Jimmy, Ollie must prove to her father that they have to stay in Binder for longer than their usual three days, whether they're wanted in Binder or not.

This little book was such a heartwarming example of friendship and kindness that I smiled through almost the entire thing. Ollie has such a brave and strong persona, that even cruel townspeople are no match when she puts her mind to helping Jimmy, even when everyone else has simply cast him aside as a troublemaker.

A colorful cast of characters adds to the richness of the novel and the added bit of mystery will appeal to those that like more meat to their story.

Though Ollie and her family are driven to Binder by their faith and their are moments of quoted Scripture, I would definitely not be classifying the book as religious fiction. Simply a plot point and an added character trait in Ollie, I thought it was beautifully woven into the realistic fiction nature of the overall story. No need to be wary if you typically stray away from books mentioning God.

Ollie and her story carved a little place in my heart and I would love to get this in the hands of kids, as it has a great message of compassion. Though Ollie is 13, I would recommend this for the middle grade age range of 9-12ish. Nothing objectionable, easy to read, etc. Would make a nice family read too. (less)

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Jan 11, 2013 Bev rated it 3 of 5 stars

There was lots to like about this book for a middle elementary audience. The family was a loving family; the father was wise and kind, the parents loved and supported each other and the kids were good without being perfect. The character of Camille was a little unrealistic and contrived, but otherwise they were regular people.

The mystery was compelling enough. Mrs. Carter was pretty extreme. I felt the disturbing events involving the frogs from both the father and Mrs. Carter were over the top f...more

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Oct 02, 2011 Meagan rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is so atmospheric and drenched in humanity. It is a story about a travelling preacher's daughter bent on helping a boy whose mother is jailed for a murder (his father)....but it is so much more than just a murder mystery. Yes, there is an element of faith in the book because it is a preacher's family but it is not at all about that and I found those references "Ollie wondered what God might think when he looked down on the shack Jimmy Koppel called home" are more about the southern cul...more

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Mar 04, 2012 Rosalyn rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was a lovely book, about thirteen-year-old Ollie Love and her travelling-preacher father (who goes by the unlikely but apt name of Everlasting Love). Her family arrives in a Georgia town on a sweltering summer day, intending to just stay their usual three days for preaching, but Ollie discovers that a local boy, Jimmie, is in serious need. His mother's in prison for killing his no-good father, and Jimmie's in danger of getting sent to the foster system. Ollie doesn't believe Jimmie's mother...more

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Mar 06, 2013 Tanya rated it 5 of 5 stars

WRITING STYLE: 5
PLOT: 4
PROTAGONIST: 5
CAPTURED MY INTEREST: 4.75
ESCAPE FACTOR: 4.75
OVERALL: 4.7

I'm having a very hard time rating this book. It was beautiful and powerful, emotional and stunning. I described it to a friend and it came across sounding like a murder mystery but it is so much more than that. The mystery was so far in the background that it didn't cross my mind that that was what some people reading the summary might think the story was about until after finishing the book. This is a...more

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Jun 12, 2012 Alice rated it 3 of 5 stars

Growing up can be a difficult thing as Ollie Love learns the summer her family stops over in Binder Arkansas. I imagine being the daughter of a travelling preacher can be a difficult things as well. Ollie and her sisters are all part of the family business under their preacher father, the reverand everlasting Love. And Love actually is their business. The kind of love the Bible speaks of more often than not as charity. The love of one's fellow man is not an easy task as Ollive learns as she trie...more

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Oct 25, 2011 Jessica Harrison rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: reviewed, middle-reader

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“With a Name Like Love” is one of those magical novels you read as a child and continue to read as an adult.

There’s something comforting about Tess Hilmo’s prose as she introduces the world to Ollie and her family — you almost feel as if you already know them. And even though murder is part of the plot, there’s a quiet grace that soothes the edges.

The book has a spiritual tone to it without being “religious.” Nothing is forced on the reader. Inspirational tones are p...more

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Nov 27, 2011 Wendy Watts Scalfaro rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Wendy by: Tess Hilmo

Tess Hilmo’s debut novel is a story about the power of love to heal and transform. When Olivene Love arrives in rural Binder, Arkansas with her parents and sisters, she expects their stay to be a typical three-day revival event lead by her preacher father. What she doesn’t realize is that she needs to do a bit of saving herself. On a trip into town, Ollie discovers how deeply prejudiced the people of Binder are toward Jimmy Koppel and his mother. It just so happens that Virginia Koppel is sittin...more

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Sep 20, 2012 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a truly lovely story, and yet another fine novel by a Utah author. What's impressive about Hilmo's novel is that it has a compelling story with distinct and interesting characters, and it's beautifully written. It's the story of Ollie Love, daughter to a traveling preacher, Everlasting Love, and their family who get waylaid on their journey in a soulless small Arkansas town. Their difficult experiences there change the townspeople and Ollie, both. This is a wonderful fell-good novel that...more

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May 13, 2012 Melissa rated it 3 of 5 stars

What I love about this book is that the heroine is good and kind even though she is a teenager. She loves her parents, and they love each other. Even though her daddy is a preacher, he is not a hypocrite nor one to judge. In so many children's books and books with a religious slant, this is not the case. I also like the mystery aspect of the plot. However there are some mean/evil characters in this book, and a couple of disturbing incidents. I also think there were too many sisters and, because...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Alanna rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was just a really nice book. It's so refreshing to have a story about a girl whose father is a preacher (named Everlasting Love, of all things!) who is actually trying to be as good as he's telling everyone else to be! Seriously-- does that EVER happen in a novel? I think the last good religious guy was Victor Hugo's priest in Les Mis or something!

Anyway, this is a book about a girl and her family trying to help a kid in a really awful situation, in a town where most of the people either do...more

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Nov 17, 2011 Angelina rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: ya, christian

This was a delightful read. The focus of the story was obviously Olive, but most of the Love family were well fleshed out. The characters rang true when combined as a family unit. Mrs. Mahoney, Moody and Ray were just a few of the other characters that gave this story depth.

Despite having a totally different type of ending, I found myself thinking of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men after thinking about the overall impression the story left upon me.

For readers who prefer Christian fiction this is a g...more

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Mar 04, 2013 Terri rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens-consideration, highly-recommended

It is 1957, and Reverend Everlasting Love is the last in a long line of traveling preachers. He, his wife Susannah, and their five daughters travel the country in an old Chevy pickup and a travel trailer, leading tent services in towns along the way. Since congregations and offerings tend to shrink as time goes by, the Loves move on every three days. Thirteen-year-old Olivine, Ollie to her family, is tired of their nomadic existence and longs for roots: a real house, real school, and real friend...more

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Terri It is 1957, and Reverend Everlasting Love is the last in a long line of traveling preachers. He, his wife Susannah, and their five daughters travel th...more
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“But some people are broken. They don't know anything other than hatred... It's like their heart gets going in the wrong direction early on in life, and they can never quite manage to bring it back around to love. It's a sad thing and we should have compassion for them. Think of the joy they are missing in life.” — 7 people liked it

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