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The storm skipped round, digging out its swath like skipping rocks through town, mashing a house here to matchsticks, leaving one next door to stand untouched. Our farm was spared, but that don't mean we were the lucky ones.
For twelve-year-old Mony (short for Ramona Louise), a small town in Georgia and the stories her pa tells are all she knows of life. Her family is poor, but they work hard to make ends meet. And Mony has Georgie, her beloved older sister and very best friend.
Then, in horrifying succession, one disaster after another strikes and Mony, Georgie, and their baby sister are suddenly on their own. They must learn to survive, just the three of them. But Mony alone must cope with the one secret she fears will destroy them as a family.
Told in a funny, sensitive, and heartbreakingly original voice, the story of Mony and her sister is the story of family, and the unbreakable ties of love, devotion, and family history.
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《学校图书馆杂志》(School Library Journal)书评
Gr 6-8-A story set in Georgia during World War II. With her mother having been killed during a tornado, and her father dying months later from the charge of an angry bull, Mony and her baby sister Keely Faye are more dependent than ever on their older half-sister Georgie. Hoping to secure more money for the family and later to further her dreams of a New York fashion career, 16-year-old Georgie borrows money from the bank to buy the town's only dress shop and to enable Mony to keep the family farm going. Hatching a plot to gain custody of adorable Keely Faye, the banker's childless wife, Magnolia Hewitt, forces all the businesses to deny credit to the sisters and even pushes toward early foreclosure on the farm, which Mony's family has proudly held for generations. Working for the once-hated Yankee Dr. Fellowes, Mony learns that her beloved Georgie was actually adopted and receives encouragement to hunt for the rumored family treasure. The plot charts amazing twists, some of the denouement is a bit forced, and the characterization of the hateful Hewitt seems thin, but Mony's tough, insightful, and occasionally deadpan ironic narration makes the story a pleasure. Messages about racial tolerance and what families should be are good ones, and readers will relate to the tenacious sisters.-Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
出版社周刊评论
A strong narrative voice and an intense bond between 12-year-old Mony (Ramony Louise) Keddrington and her beautiful 17-year-old sister, Georgie, form the spine of this first novel set in WWII Georgia. "She was my big sister who loved me fierce and proud, who tightened my braids when they drooped and beat up Charlie Jemissee once for laughing at my spelling test," says Mony of her older sister. The two together with their infant sister, Keely Faye, struggle to make ends meet when their mama dies, and their pa's fatal accident follows soon after. Through Pa's treasured family stories and a heated racial conflict in town, Brady lays the groundwork for some lingering secrets and the question of what defines a family, which lies at the heart of the novel. Despite Mony's frank, likable voice, the girls' constant peril and a compelling discussion of racial equality, the flimsy characterizations of the supporting cast weaken the underlying drama. The oppressive Southern small-town community so well drawn in the first chapters dwindles by novel's end. What readers will most remember is the love between the two sisters. Ages 10-up. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
《儿童读物杂志》(Horn Book)书评
In 1944 Georgia, Ramona Louise (Mony) and her two sisters must face life after their parents are killed in (separate) freak accidents. Mony then discovers that her beloved older sister has a mixed-race background and is not biologically related to her at all. Much of the novel--including the characterizations and plot twists--seems overwrought, but Mony's colloquial first-person narrative is emotionally direct. From HORN BOOK Fall 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus评论
Deep family love, secrets, and racial tension highlight this often suspenseful and touching, sometimes wordy drama set in Georgia during WWII, as two orphaned sisters and a baby try to survive. Even after the death of 12-year-old Monys mother in a tornado, all seems well until her father, too, is killed. Mony and her 16-year-old half-sister, Georgie, who dreams of becoming a dress designer, are left to survive with their infant sister, Keely Faye. Georgie takes out a mortgage on their farm to buy a dress shop. She makes it a success, but cant compete with the machinations of the bankers wife, Magnolia Hewitt, who wants Keely Faye. When Georgie refuses to give her the baby, Mr. Hewitt forbids local stores to offer the sisters credit, then calls in their mortgage. The sisters begin, literally, to starve, until a Yankee, Dr. Fellowes, sacrifices his own family heirlooms for them. The situation becomes more serious when Mony learns that Georgie is part Negro, and will be in danger if the bigoted townsfolk discover her secret. The soap-opera elements in the story will entice many young readers, although the climactic scene drags tediously on. Mony, with atrocious grammar that, oddly, the rest of her family does not share, comes across as feisty and charming. The suspense of the intrepid sisters struggle to survive could keep readers hooked, if they can overlook the melodrama. (Fiction. 10-12)