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I love when a book takes me out of my reality and plops me square in the middle of another. One Came Home is that book. The setting alone made me wish with all my might that I might live in the middle of nowhere before cell phones and Pinterest just so that I could look up into a night sky and hear silence.
Big sister disappears and everyone presumes she is dead. Little sister has done lost her mind and decides to pick up a shotgun, hit the trail on a mule (yes, a mule, as in half donkey, half h ...more
Big sister disappears and everyone presumes she is dead. Little sister has done lost her mind and decides to pick up a shotgun, hit the trail on a mule (yes, a mule, as in half donkey, half h ...more
A middle grade frontiering story. Can't say I've ever read something quite in this genre before, but this was an interesting read.
I admit I had to double check what kind of pigeons this book was about before getting too deep into it. Our main character, Georgie, is an excellent shot. Here interests are also stereotypically male in that she also wants to run her family's store. I'm not going to lie, this was not exactly the fastest read for me. There is a lot of writing about the characters' rela ...more
I admit I had to double check what kind of pigeons this book was about before getting too deep into it. Our main character, Georgie, is an excellent shot. Here interests are also stereotypically male in that she also wants to run her family's store. I'm not going to lie, this was not exactly the fastest read for me. There is a lot of writing about the characters' rela ...more
This is one of the best books I have read this year--historical fiction with a mystery, humor, and adventure. The voice of the narrator is wonderful, and the whole book was just a great read!
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Jan 13, 2013
Lisa
marked it as to-read
Feb 22, 2013
Sharon
marked it as b-list
