What does it take to be happy? Karen Hesse thinks she knows and spells out a good bit of the answer in this 138 page story of family love and loyalty during hard times. Along the way she creates Talking Points on extreme poverty ("jelly so thin you can hardly find the purple"), illiteracy and accompanying pride, learning styles, doing Christmas modestly, and even a tastefully expressed home childbirth. Reading livel = 3.5 Quality = 5 out of 5; Acceptability = 5 out of 5.
My only criticism is with Robert Andrew Parker's illustrations. I'd like to see someone else take a run at this worthy work.
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the book just juice is the bast book and chapter five is the bast and is was sad to and karen hesse is the bast to. and i am read the book
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