This book is the third in the series. Hannah Cartwright is an orphan adopted by an abusive father and ends up living on the streets. She takes a young crippled girl who she has taken in on an orphan train and they end up in Sour Springs Texas. The amusing tale of her life as a school teacher and her encounters with another street child turned young man, Grant with no last name are enjoyable to read. Grant's descriptions of "The Shirt Lady" and how he sees things are really funny.
Summer Reading Book Reviews 2011
Submitted by Fran DeGregoria at the Hilton Head Branch Library on Saturday, July 23, 2011
Submitted by Fran DeGregoria at the Hilton Head Branch Library on Saturday, July 23, 2011
This novel is an enjoyable and amusing story of Grace Calhoun, a young teacher who was formerly an orphan adopted by an abusive man. As the story is set in 1867 in Texas, life is hard and primitive. It's a one room school house with a woodstove. Grace's experiences at school with the Reeves children are nothing compared to the experiences she has as their mother. The descriptions presented make you feel like you are there. Although this is the second book in the series, I did not read the first one and found it to stand alone.
Submitted by Fran DeGregoria at the Hilton Head Branch Library on Saturday, July 23, 2011
This book is a romance novel. The central characters are Rachel Donovan, the town's chiropractor, who as a young girl had a child out of wedlock and Jack Westwood, the cowboy next door. Rachel's earlier experiences with a cowboy cause her to distrust all cowboys which results in her trying to control her "niece"'s life and keeps her from experiencing love. This story is one of forgiving yourself and not thinking the worst of others.
Submitted by Fran DeGregoria at the Hilton Head Branch Library on Saturday, July 23, 2011
This is the third in this series of books. The books center around the stories of a young Amish girl who is now grown who gave her child up for adoption as an unwed mother and an "Englisher" girl who comes into the community after losing her mother, finding out she has cancer and wanting holistic treatment, and finding out she was adopted but her real mother was Amish. This book was more compelling than the other two and pulled on your heart strings.
Submitted by Fran DeGregoria at the Hilton Head Branch Library on Saturday, July 23, 2011
This novel is fictional but is based on the truth of how foster children are treated in our country. The novel centers around a young boy who loses his mother to pneumonia and his desire to get to know his real father, a professional football player. The story is based on the premise that as a professional football player, your life that really matters is what happens between Sundays. The novel is endorsed by Alex Smith, a real San Francisco 49'ers football player who created the Alex Smith Foundation to help foster children.