Ken R. (kenrose69) reviewed on + 30 more book reviews
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"Dovey Coe" by Frances O'Roark Dowell, winner of the 2001 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile mystery book, is a timeless story about growing up and one that is surely destined to become a classic.
Dovey Coe is a twelve-year-old girl living in the mountains of North Carolina with her family in the late 1920s. She is the narrator of this tale that takes place the year her sixteen-year-old sister Caroline decides to go away to teachers' college and how their lives all change in ways none of them could ever have imagined.
It's easy to see why this book won The Edgar; the story moves along at a steady pace and the characters are well developed. The author doesn't come out and say which characters are respectable and which may have twisted morals. Instead, each character's personality comes through with the way the author describes them and has them respond to situations. There is the perfect amount of mystery for readers ages 9 and up, but not so little that older readers will get bored.
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Dovey Coe is a twelve-year-old girl living in the mountains of North Carolina with her family in the late 1920s. She is the narrator of this tale that takes place the year her sixteen-year-old sister Caroline decides to go away to teachers' college and how their lives all change in ways none of them could ever have imagined.
It's easy to see why this book won The Edgar; the story moves along at a steady pace and the characters are well developed. The author doesn't come out and say which characters are respectable and which may have twisted morals. Instead, each character's personality comes through with the way the author describes them and has them respond to situations. There is the perfect amount of mystery for readers ages 9 and up, but not so little that older readers will get bored.
Read more of this review: http://www.examiner.com/review/review-dovey-coe-by-frances-o-roark-dowell
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