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I might have given this 5 stars if it weren't for the narrator who I felt was too melodramatic. Yes, it was a melodramatic story of children who escaped horrors from an Indian school and set out to find their aunt in St. Louis, but just a normal telling would have been fine. Strong spiritual foundation.
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Great read. Part history, part myth, a little religion. Shades of Steinbeck, Dickens and Homer. A graphic picture of the Great Depression.
I particularly related to this book because my father, age 15 at the time in 1930, hoboed with my mother’s brother from Kentucky to Oregon. As a result of that, we never turned away the many “travelers” on the highway in front of our house who often stopped seeking a meal during the 1950’s.
I particularly related to this book because my father, age 15 at the time in 1930, hoboed with my mother’s brother from Kentucky to Oregon. As a result of that, we never turned away the many “travelers” on the highway in front of our house who often stopped seeking a meal during the 1950’s.
A good old-fashioned historical novel in the manner of Huckleberry Finn, where four orphans escape an Indian Foundation School in Minnesota and travel down several rivers in a canoe trying to reach St. Louis with the hope of finding a new home. William Krueger evokes a 1930's American landscape of beautiful scenery contrasted with the hardscrabble lives of vagabonds and shanty towns. The children encounter both cruelty and kindness from strangers, and if you are willing to suspend belief in cert
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I always wish I could give half stars. Then I'd rate this 3 1/2. Well written descriptions of time and place. Story dragged a bit for me.
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