This is one of my favorite books. It's exciting, informative, and very interesting. I enjoyed the plot, the suprising ending, and all the little details. Delphine was probably my favorite character. Overall, I recommend this book to all historal fiction and Richard Peck fans. And to just about anyone else!
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Peck has followed Mildred Taylor's "The Land" with another expose' of the exploitation of women of color by gentrified white men of the South up to the Civil War. It was a norm and secret that deserves unmasking for American children.But the book is so much more. Peck takes the reader on an road trip with a father and his sons by touring car in 1916 for a family reunion with elders. It is the elders' story told as teens...
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In The River between Us, Richard Peck has created a novel-long flashback, sandwiched between chapters spoken to us through the eyes of a young man travelling with his father to the town where his dad grew up. The flashback is the story of the young man?s grandmother, Tilly Pruitt, who lived in the small Mississippi River town of Grand Tower along with her brother Noah, her frail little sister Cass, and their mother. One day,...
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For all those who "dislike" historical fiction novels, ignore that label for this latest of Peck's writing sojourns. This story -told in a most convincing, compelling first person-narrative Peck's choice words, plots and characters leave the reader awash in the tumultous times prior and during the Civil War. Fabulously detailed backdrop + seamless integration of themes sweep the reader along in this haunting and memorable...
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