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How often are the book descriptions here at GR really true? Go and read the one for this book. It is true! Every word of it. Nothing is exaggerated, as is so often the case! It gives you all the necessary facts you need to know. As it says, this is a book of humor. This book will make kids laugh, adults laugh and the elderly laugh. This book is for everyone. It is definitely for Americans because it depicts their not so recent past. It is for all those who are not American too, because everyone
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Long ago I saw the movie of True Grit that starred John Wayne, but didn't remember much about it except for the fact that the young star was female. (This was a big deal to a teenaged girl in the 1970s.)
I read very few books set in the American frontier west and probably wouldn't have chosen this one except that I needed a classic in this category for a challenge in one of my groups. So, I got this audiobook from the library and I am glad that I did.
In True Grit fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross wan ...more
I read very few books set in the American frontier west and probably wouldn't have chosen this one except that I needed a classic in this category for a challenge in one of my groups. So, I got this audiobook from the library and I am glad that I did.
In True Grit fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross wan ...more
From BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:
Narrated by the aging Mattie Ross, True Grit is Mattie's recollection of events, many years earlier, when, as a fourteen year old girl she undertook an unthinkable quest to avenge her father's death...
Mattie's father, Frank Ross, left the family farm near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on a trip to buy some ponies, but was tragically never to return. He was shot dead and robbed by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, who then fled, and is suspe ...more
Narrated by the aging Mattie Ross, True Grit is Mattie's recollection of events, many years earlier, when, as a fourteen year old girl she undertook an unthinkable quest to avenge her father's death...
Mattie's father, Frank Ross, left the family farm near the town of Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on a trip to buy some ponies, but was tragically never to return. He was shot dead and robbed by Tom Chaney, one of his own workers, who then fled, and is suspe ...more
If you want to read a book with a young, strong female character, look no further than this book. No simpering little teenager here. You'll wonder who actually had more grit - Rooster or Mattie?
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I tried so hard to like this but couldn’t. I’m just not a western book person. I did love how the story was set in Arkansas and parts of Oklahoma where I lived a while ago.
