"Grown-ups was real complicated. And Eula was the most tangled-up one I'd ever tried to figure out."I love a Southern novel and this one fits the bill. The story is suspenseful and the characters are are compelling. A good summer read.
What a ride! From the beginning pages of this book, Starla captured my heart and even though there were times, I questioned her judgment I knew that she was only nine and she was living her life. The time is 1963 and segregation was just in its beginning stages. Living in Mississippi with her Mam...
3.5 Stars. Starla has had it up to here with her grandmother, Mamie. She’s sick of being called trash and being on restriction all the time while her daddy tries to make ends meet working on an off-shore oil rig. When she finally blows her top and punches out the neighborhood bully on the 4th of ...
MY THOUGHTSABSOLUTELY LOVED ITStarla is almost 10 years old when she is put on restriction AGAIN by her grandmother, where she lives in a small town in Mississippi while her father works on an oil rig. The disappointment grows when Starla realizes that she will miss the Fourth of July parade and fi...
This was a strange little novel and I'm not sure how I feel about it just yet, so this review might change. The book is about a young girl in 1960 Mississippi. Starla's mother ran away to chase stardom in Nashville and her father works aboard an oil rig, so Starla is left with her strict, proper Sou...
This story is told through the eyes of a very bright, nine year old, red-headed girl named Starla and is about her brave adventure one summer in the South.The way Starla views her surroundings is not only captivating, every little morsel of it, but incredibly intelligent. her reasoning based on what...
"My daddy says that when you do somethin' to distract you from your worstest fears, it's like whistlin' past the graveyard. You know, making a racket to keep the scaredness and the ghosts away. He says that's how we get by sometimes. But it's not weak, like hidin'... It's strong. It means you're abl...
Read my full review: http://bit.ly/10EKtTBMy rating: 4 Stars My opinion: There is something about this time that I really enjoy the literature set during that period. Whistling Past the Graveyard was no exception. This author wrote characters, even the support characters, in ways that were so realis...
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