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Friendship, like bravery, can make its appearance at the most unexpected times. Kate DiCamillo's new yarn is one to treasure--light and jocular on the surface, RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE belies a deeper, truer, more aching heart than at first it might seem, beating its broken rhythm with absent parents, poverty, and loss. Raymie, our spunky heroine, finds friendship among two girls who are battling the familiar childhood foes of loneliness and powerlessness. These "Three Rancheros" together light the wa
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This was a very satisfying book. It does, indeed, hearken back to the type of story told in Because of Winn-Dixie, one of my favorite books, and my favorite of this author. This is the story of 3 unlikely friends who meet when they are the only students in a baton-twirling class in the summer of 1975. Beverly is cynical and planning to sabotage the contest the other girls are hoping to enter, Louisiana is an innocent, over-idealistic optimist, and Raymie is firmly in between: more realistic, yet
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Raymie is determined to win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition so that her father will see her picture in the paper and come home. But first she has to learn how to twirl a baton. And that's the start of a wild and wacky ride, as she makes two friends in class who also have issues in their lives. This one is getting rave reviews, but I didn't love it. Raymie seemed a bit naive to me, and I had a hard time sympathizing with her Also I found some of the other odd characters annoying
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Kate DiCamillo, the author of Because of Winn-Dixie, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (two of my favorite) and many more never disappoints. This is a quirky story of 3 friends.
May 05, 2016
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Beautiful.
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