The Lost Mother

I'm going to throw in my two cents just because I'm so irritated with all the reviews that call this book "bad" because it is sad. They are not the same thing. If you don't like sad books, try to avoid them. But if sad books were automatically "bad," then that would make most of the world's great li......more

I enjoyed this book very much. It was a tale of hard times amidst hard times. The setting was the Great Depression but the struggles were not only grounded in poverty but in family values. The powerlessness of being a kid was the gripping theme. Terrible injustices and just plain bad luck attempt to......more

While this book was written 8 years earlier, it has the same plot as Whistling Past the Graveyard in that a child/ren look for their mother who took off for greener pastures and suffer horrible events along the way. While I didn't really care for Graveyard, I did for this one. First, the children re......more