Say You Are My Sister

by Laurel Stowe Brady

The storm skipped round, digging out its swath like skipping rocks through town, mashing a house here to matchsticks, leaving one next door to stand untouched. Our farm was spared, but that don't mean we were the lucky ones. For twelve-year-old Mony (short for Ramona Louise), a small town in Georgia and the stories her pa tells are all she knows of life. Her family is poor, but they work hard to make ends meet. And Mony has Georgie, her beloved older...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060283076
• ISBN13: 9780060283070
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher

Customer Reviews

A Story With Great Moral Perspectives and Strong Family Ties

The story is great the perspective in which it is described brings and catches the attention of the reader, as well as enforces strong family ties, and values, and help us realize and cherish our own family and relationships. You will just fall in love with the characters, and truely care for their will of survival!!!!!!!

A wonderful book

SAY YOU ARE MY SISTER is a beautifully-written book about family, hardships, loyalty and conscience; yet it is full of good humor and suspense. Mony is an endearing character--a literary cousin of Scout in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. She's frank and funny and brave. This is the kind of book that could spark some thoughtful discussion in the classroom about our country's history of racial discrimination. I bought a copy for my children's school library.

Fall in love with Mony and her sisters!!!

You won't be able to help yourself as you follow their struggles to survive a series of heartbreaking tragedies that leave them to fend for themselves in a small town in the deep south still caught in the grip of the Jim Crow "Whites Only" laws.Told in the wonderfully fresh, funny, and spunky voice of 12-year-old Mony Keddrington, I found myself laughing one minute and wiping tears from my eyes the next.I felt like I was right there with Mony as she and her sister Georgie used ingenuity, guts, and spirit trying to survive as a family, all the while harboring an explosive secret that threatened to destroy everything they ever held dear. This is the best book I have read since Cold Sassy Tree at evoking the genuine feel of the south. I can't believe Laurel Stowe Brady is a first-time novelist, she writes with so much authority. I will be looking for everything she ever writes as it comes out!!