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The Lost Mother
The Lost Mother
Author: Mary McGarry Morris
From Publishers Weekly "They said it was bad for everyone, but nobody else the boy knew had to live in the woods." Thus begins the harrowing story of 12-year-old Thomas and eight-year-old Margaret in Morris's powerful sixth novel. Reduced to living in a tent in Vermont during the Depression, the children and their father, Henry Talcott, a butche...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739458464
ISBN-10: 0739458469
Pages: 274
Rating:
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 11 ratings
Publisher: Viking
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Helpful Score: 4
This book is set in the Depression and tells of a family through very hard times. It is heartbreaking in parts yet always hopeful that the love of family will win out. Excellent characters that grab your heartstrings from the first page.I highly recommend it.
Cheryl-Sam avatar reviewed The Lost Mother on + 39 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
The author really makes you feel for this family and for the father who is struggling to hold his family together. The story is told by the young boy who is trying to cope with all they are going through and deal with his mother's abandonment. Definitely worth a read.
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Helpful Score: 2
A story set in the great depression-one family's hardships and toll it takes on them all, especially the children.
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Helpful Score: 1
This book was incredibly tragic. It kept me reading for sure but only in the hope that life would get better for the brother and sister in the story. Very realistic.
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 reviewed The Lost Mother on + 3 more book reviews
The story of a family abandoned by the mother in rural Vermont during the Great Depression. Full of heartache, but I couldn't put it down. An easy read, too.
JTG avatar reviewed The Lost Mother on + 280 more book reviews
Well written book about children and their struggle to be loved.
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Very good, but rather sad.
Tunerlady avatar reviewed The Lost Mother on + 581 more book reviews
What an emotionally wrenching novel this was. A poignant tale about two children, a brother and his little sister during the depression of the 30's and how difficult life was, especially since their mother abandoned them. Written with such sensitivity and clarity of place and character, that it moves seamlessly through very dark material.
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This was one of the most difficult books I've read about life during the Depression, family ties and abandonment. It broke my heart.
keywestlori avatar reviewed The Lost Mother on + 33 more book reviews
One of the best books I've read on broken families. Tender and heartbreaking but well worthwhile.
mom2nine avatar reviewed The Lost Mother on + 343 more book reviews
Author's characterization of children was spot on at each age. Follow the children as they grow up during the depression, as various situations develop told through the older brother's point of view. Safety nets fail and the boy takes their lives into his own hands.
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Mary McGarry Morris is a wonderful story teller. This is a story of a family, (told by the older brother) that live in Vermont during the Great Depression. The father is a farm animal butcher and the mother unexpectedly moves. The story traces the children's journey to find their lost mother.
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Sweet, sweet story!


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