Buttermilk Hill

by Ruth White

Book Overview

Finding a way to cope through poetry The days seem carefree for Piper Berry in her hometown of Buttermilk Hill, North Carolina -- days filled with fishing with her daddy and ten-year-old aunt/best friend Lindy and listening to her grandmother's stories. But then Mama, Tiny Lambert (whom readers may remember from Weeping Willow ), announces she wants more out of life than being a housewife, and Daddy thinks this is unreasonable. He moves out and that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374410038
• ISBN13: 9780374410032
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Amazing!In love with it.

This book made me think of myself so much, Because in my life my parents divorced too and I also write poetry all the time. I loved this book so much for those reasons, cause ive always liked books that could relate to myself, and this book really did. If you haven't read it yet, your missing out, which means you need to read it!<3

Buttermilk Hill

This book made me cry. It was the best book i ever read!!!! On the scale from one to 10 I would rate it 10,000,000,000!!!! This bool is sad,funny and makes you feel happy and of coruse amazing!!!!!

A Must Read!

Things are going very well for 10-year-old Piper Berry, who thinks the whole world is gossamer (that means light and delicate). Then slowly it seems as the book states, "the gossamer began to unravel." Piper loves to use words like gossamer, in fact, she has a fascination with words and keeps a notebook of her favorite new words. As things begin to really get bad for Piper, she finds an escape in writing poetry. Words become her way of expressing anger, love, disappointment, and just everyday happenings in the life of a changing pre-teen. Words have such power, Piper learns through the course of the book that words can actually change your life and the lives of those you care about.

An extraordinary Girl in an Extraordinary World!

1. This book is about a wonderful girl named Piper Berry. At the beginning of the story she is 10 years old. She lives in a trailer park on Buttermilk Hill. It is called Buttermilk Hill because there are daises on the hill so it looks like Buttermilk. Her mom and dad are going though a divorce and end up getting a divorce. Her best friend Lindy, who is also her aunt but they are the same age, want horses so badly. But Piper's dad and Lindy's Dad (Piper's Grandpa) will not let them. But Piper's Dad gets remarried and his new wife has twin boys and Denver (Pipers Dad) adopts them and gets the twins horses. He tries to keep it a secret from Piper and Lindy but they soon find out. Piper's Mom lets her have a new dog that is a Golden Retriever, named Booger. Sometimes Piper finds comfort in Booger. She had a long list of words that she thinks are intriguing but it starts to get long so she starts writing poetry. She gets good enough and works up the courage to go to the Library in her town on writer night to read her poem. She was one of the only kids there. Everyone liked it including the Doctor. Who read a poem about his stolen baby boy? Lindy and Piper started to meet in the cemetery where it is nice and quiet, one day they meet a boy named Bucky who lives in Tacky Town but longs for something more. Piper can turn to them in her time of need. She is feeling alone and left out in her family and life. Where she needs to find comfort. She tries but will her parents listen, and will they work things out? 2. To me this book is intriguing and I will read it over and over again and it will not get old. I loved it and it reflected personally on me and my family! I can relate to it so much that is occurring in the book! I know what she is going through. 3. In this book there is a lot of diction. Diction is choice of word. Piper has vivid words in her poetry that she writes. She also has a word list that has very emphasized and intriguing words. 4. I have rated this 5 stars because it can relate to so many young teen age girls. As the changes they go though with themselves and the ones around them.

Piper Berry Could Have Been Me

Never have I encountered a book that was so much like going home again to the North Carolina of my own childhood. In Buttermilk Hill, 10-year-old Piper Berry is facing painful changes in her family. She turns to her friends and her writing to get her through the confusion and pain of her parent's divorce. But this is definitely not a dreary divorce book. It's full of high hopes that are well on the way to being met by the end of the story. Throughout the book, family love and understanding grows stronger. And happy endings (thought perhaps not the endings they hoped for) are had by all. What more could anyone ask?