Deliver Us from Evie

by M.E. Kerr

Book Overview

Told by her brother Parr, this is the story of 18-year-old Evie, her Missouri farm family, and the turmoil created by Evie's love for the local banker's daughter. Teens will be swept up in the emotion... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0064471284
• ISBN13: 9780064471282
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Harper Teen
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Change In Attitudes

This is the first book that I have ever read about a lesbian girl, Evie, and how her family has to deal with the comments and accusations, and haste rejections from their friends and neighbors. The story is told through Parr, Evie's brother, eyes and with every word, it almost seems that Evie is your sister, and Doug is your brother, and that you live on a farm. The fact that this story is told through Parr's perspective gives insight on what life was like for Evie. This book made me see the cruelness of people who you thought that you could rely on when it comes to homosexuality. With many books that focus around the male gay, this book showed just the opposite. Evie was portrayed as almost a rebel and a person that you would respect. This book has opened up doors for me into a whole new world of reading and I hope that others will read Deliver Us From Evie as an insight into something new. I hope to read more books that have characters just like Evie and Parr, put I know that Deliver Us From Evie will always be the best one.

Teaches Tolerance

I teach at-risk high school students and I have purchased this book for my classroom library. I appreciate that it teaches tolerance in a way that is appropriate for the classrom. My high school students have enjoyed this book!

Great Read

It took me a day to finish, but it was totally worth it. The emotional atmosphere in this book is very tense. It has a terrific way of showing how a family deals with a gay family member. I would recomemend this book to tom-boys and person who has a tom-boy in there family. And even people dealing with a gay family member, or if you know someone that is gay.

It was great

I realy liked the book be cause the boy stood up for his sister evie was cool

A new perspective

This book breaks all the rules we typically have about lesbians. not in the way they look, but how they feel. It centers around Evie, who is a lesbian. Her mother wants her to dress more like a woman, but she refuses.She says men's clothes are comfy. None of her family thinks anything of it until she begins becoming real good frinds with the bankowners daughter Patsy. Then she and Patsy both must stand up for what they believe in.