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A review by bexcapades
Where the Heart Is by Jo Knowles
4.0
3.5 stars
This is a middle grade/early teens book about a girl who’s family is in financial difficulty, during the summer before 8th grade. The story focuses on confusion over attraction, the divide between well off & not well off families, farm life & the confusion about what growing up really means.
I think this could be a helpful book to use as a talking point if you have children/pre-teens about honesty, relationships and how they don’t need to know who or if they are attracted to people yet.
There aren’t many light moments though and I feel like the ending, though realistic, was a little depressing.
This is a middle grade/early teens book about a girl who’s family is in financial difficulty, during the summer before 8th grade. The story focuses on confusion over attraction, the divide between well off & not well off families, farm life & the confusion about what growing up really means.
I think this could be a helpful book to use as a talking point if you have children/pre-teens about honesty, relationships and how they don’t need to know who or if they are attracted to people yet.
There aren’t many light moments though and I feel like the ending, though realistic, was a little depressing.