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Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth.
Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance. Woodrow isn't as forthcoming as Gypsy hopes, yet he becomes more than just a curiosity to her-- during their sixth-grade year she finds that they have enough in common to be best friends. Even so, Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance of his mother's disappearance, especially since she herself has never gotten over her father's death. When Woodrow finally reveals that he's been keeping a secret about his mother, Gypsy begins to understand that there are different ways of finding the strength to face the truth, no matter how painful it is.
Belle Prater's Boy is a 1996 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Fiction and a 1997 Newbery Honor Book.
媒体推荐“Gypsy, the 12-year-old narrator, is all excited when her cousin Woodrow moves in with their grandparents next door--Woodrow's mother . . . has disappeared without a trace, and Gypsy hopes that Woodrow will divulge some new clues. Instead, she gets a best friend. . . . White creates vivacious, memorable characters.” ―Publishers Weekly, starred review
“An admirable, stirring book.” ―The New York Times Book Review
作者简介Ruth White is the author of Sweet Creek Holler, an ALA Notable Book, and Weeping Willow, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. She lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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iot's great , it tells a good spirit
This book was recommended to me by a fifth grade teacher who uses it in her classroom in Lithia, FL. As an adult reader, I was surprisingly pulled in by this story of 1954 rural Virginia and the way life was at that time. The story is built around the mystery of the disappearance one night of a family member (Belle Prater) including the build up to that event and the results afterwards. This book offers many thought provoking questions for young and old alike. In fact, I liked it Belle Prater's Boy enough to read the follow on book about what happens to this family. This is an easy read good book for adults. It is a very good book for young adults.
This is a touching story with a surprisingly mature plot for a book written for ages 10-11. The two main characters, cousins, are trying to deal with loss - one the death her father and the other the disappearance of his mother. Both feel like social outcasts and like they have been abandoned by the adult most important to them. I so appreciate an author who respects adolescents and children enough to write such a human story that thousands of children will be able to relate to and thousands more may learn some empathy from reading such a moving story.
This book was a wonderful read. I am an elementary school counselor & decided to read this book because my sixth-graders are reading it in class. Their teacher knew that some of the students might have questions dealing with death and suicide. It is the first book I have read by Ruth White but it will not be the last! It is very well written and she deals with the subjects of death and suicide in a very sensitive way. I like the theme throughout the book of not judging people by what you see on the outside but by getting to know what's on the inside.
I really enjoyed this book, even though I am far from the age of the young people in this book. I live very near the book's setting, and that added quite a bit of enjoyment for me.
The plot was believable, and had a fairly high ring of possible truth to it.
Personally, I liked the implied message in the whole book, and a lot of grownups could do well to heed the message.
This book was given to my daughter to read who is nine for school, I think it's a bit depressing and sad for a kid who really needed a pick me up after experience with tragedy of her own. Not cool Lackland Isd!
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