Little Miss Strange

by Joanna Rose and Joanna Rose

Book Overview

1997 Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association Prize for First Novel. Sarajean is the child of love children. She lives with Jimmy Henry, a Vietnam vet she accepts as her father. Her mother, whoever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565121546
• ISBN13: 9781565121546
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Little Miss Strange

Little Miss Strange, is a wonderful and intriguing novel. It has captured the minds of many young people everywhere. It has a feeling of home and abandon. New thoughts come out of the book as you read and visualize what Joanna Rose paints in her mind. The first few chapters opens you up to a new world, a diffrent world where the young and old are united. Some parts of the books were graphic, but that was only the realistic veiws of inspiration. Other parts of the book were confusing, but it became clear later. The book itself was VERY wonderful. Personally, I think Joanna Rose should have contuined it as a series.

A decade to envy!

There's not much I can say that hasn't already been well-said by the other reviewers. If you've ever felt cheated because you missed out on the seventies, here's your chance to experience them for yourself. Although Sarajean is too young to know the sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll of the era, she sees the effects of excess in her home and her surroundings. Living with a man who is supposedly her father and desperately searching for a mother figure, Sarajean glides through her world with conflicting thoughts and feelings. You'll follow Sarajean on her journey of discovery and revel in her stories of adventure, loss, and acceptance. Join Sarajean as she attends the freedom school, gets into trouble with her wild best friend, and has her first crush on a neighborhood boy. This book is filled with charming vignettes as well as heartbreaking scenes where Sarajean must come to terms with her family situation. Like another reviewer, I was really sad to see this book end. I only wish the author would consider a sequal!

You won't forget this book!

This was the first book I read for fun after I finished college, and I was hooked! Following Sarajean from kindergarten through adolescence is a trip you'll be glad you took. It is suprising, interesting and even a little disturbing to grow with Sarajean. The characters that surround her are just as interesting and help the reader experience, not just read. Don't miss this novel!

Guten

I think this book is in some ways like a guide through adolescence. I really liked reading it, and I was slightly sad when it was over. I think we can all find a little bit of ourselves in the book's main character. It's quite a delightful read.

exceptionally good

I completely relished in Little Miss Strange. The novel lured me into the beautiful story line from the start. This book is of a young girl named Sarajean and spams her life from the age of about 5 to 14. Throughout the novel, Sarajean goes on a quest to find her mother, or any other form of family in the hippie scene of the '70s. Because of her eccentric situation, Sarajean finds "family" in friends, neighbors, and possessions. Although she does not know her mother, Sarajean finds it important to even know something as little as her place of birth and roots. If you do not like these "looking for mother" books, do not be turned away... the actual search is not as apparent as I make it to be. The story is filled with a plethora of different subplots and changing characters. Sarajean's relationships with other people constantly change to accomodate the twists and turns in the book. I don't give many books 5 stars, but this one was amazingly captivating. It definetly deserves more recognition; Ive never read anything like Little Miss Strange.