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Sweet Creek Holler
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Children's chapter book, main character meets family with the last name "weed" [s]

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message 1: by Erin (new)

Erin Hall | 4 comments Main character moves to another town and meets a family with the last name "weed" and their first names are all flowers. Their mom names them after flowers to make up for their last name.


message 2: by Kris (new)

Kris | 54882 comments Mod
Erin, what year did you read this book?

Is this a picture book or a chapter book with mostly words?

What's the tone - funny, coming-of-age, angsty, etc.?


message 3: by Erin (last edited Jan 17, 2016 10:51AM) (new)

Erin Hall | 4 comments Read this between 1990-1993; chapter book; I remember very little but I'm thinking it is most likely a coming-of-age story. I remember crying at the end but I can't remember why. Not sure target age but it was in the library at my elementary school.


message 4: by Leslie (new)

Leslie Meakin | 34 comments There is a scholastic paperback called Poppy and the Outdoors Cat about a large family where all the kids were named after flowers. I don't know if their last name was Weed.


message 5: by Erin (new)

Erin Hall | 4 comments Hmm- I looked that up but that's not it, it says her last name is Flowers. In this book, the weed family were secondary characters and I think they may have been poor. I can't remember the main character's name but I kind of remember her being new to the place where most of the story takes place - perhaps on summer vacation or something?


message 6: by Erin (new)

Erin Hall | 4 comments Bump


message 7: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)

Lobstergirl | 44894 comments Mod
Erin, are you still looking for this or did you find it?


message 8: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart | 28553 comments Think I got it!

Sweet Creek Holler

The girls in school were Daisy, Rose, and Tulip; the boys were Clover, Birch, and Goldenrod. I secretly admired the spunk of Mrs. Weed to give her children such names. Seems like she brooded on the condition of her life and a name like Weed, and not being able to do a thing about it, she decided to give her children something special.


message 9: by Kris (new)

Kris | 54882 comments Mod
Google Books preview of Sweet Creek Holler by Ruth White - Rainbowheart's suggestion:

https://books.google.com/books?id=Ywb...


message 10: by Lobstergirl, au gratin (new)

Lobstergirl | 44894 comments Mod
No response. Moving to Solved.


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