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Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy Tree
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On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of... show more
On July 5, 1906, scandal breaks in the small town of Cold Sassy, Georgia, when the proprietor of the general store, E. Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780547416120 (0547416121)
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
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Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite
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3.5 Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns
For some people, there are short periods in their lives when they have to do a lot of growing up, very quickly. For Hoyt Willis Tweedy, that time is the summer, fall, and winter of 1906. Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, tells the story of the summer that Will stopped being a child. The blurbs on...
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4.0 Cold Sassy Tree
Read it; it's worth it.
Jenny's Book Bag
Jenny's Book Bag rated it
4.0 Cold Sassy Tree
Read it; it's worth it.
Blah, Blah, Blah, Book Blog
Blah, Blah, Blah, Book Blog rated it
4.0 Cold Sassy Tree
This was the perfect book to listen to. I am pretty sure that I could not have captured the wonderful southern voices in this story in my head. We listened to this at work, and every once in a while we had to just repeat what was said - so much so that we now have to have E. Rucker Blakeslee days at...
Chrissie's Books
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2.0 Cold Sassy Tree: A Novel
Do you enjoy a sweet story? Are you a religious person with deep faith? Do you enjoy books set in the South at the turn of the century? Then this book is probably a good choice for you. My own response to the two first questions is not affirmative, and that is why I cannot give it more than two star...
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