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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman is a delightfully fun and easy, feel-good book about a twelve-year-old girl who, after her mother passes away, moves in with her great-aunt in Savannah, Georgia. There she settles in her new and unfamiliar surroundings and gets to know her long-lost aunt as well as a quirky set of Southern characters.
Tallulah Caldwell is CeeCee's great-aunt "Tootie." A kind widow who was never blessed with kids of her own, she makes room in her heart and home for CeeCee. CeeCee can't help but care for Aunt Tootie, and it isn't long before she also forms special bond with the maid, Oletta. Then there's the glamorous and sometimes mischievous neighbor, Thelma Goodpepper, who has a real live peacock and a claw-footed bathtub in her backyard. She likes to relax in the tub and watch the stars. Miss Hobbs is another neighbor, but she is not so congenial. She puts on airs and CeeCee has a bit of fun at her expense. For a girl who's just lost her mother emotional healing is long and hard road. But living with Aunt Tootie and her new friends is a wonderful cushion to fall back on. In the end we see that CeeCee's "...life had begun to blossom as sweetly as a Georgia peach."
(Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (London: Pamela Dorman/Penguin Book, 2010), 259.)
I recommend this book for any age bracket. It's heart-breaking, heart-warming, and funny. Beth Hoffman has such a great writing style you won't want to put it down. Read other reviews at readinginthegarden.blogspot.com
Tallulah Caldwell is CeeCee's great-aunt "Tootie." A kind widow who was never blessed with kids of her own, she makes room in her heart and home for CeeCee. CeeCee can't help but care for Aunt Tootie, and it isn't long before she also forms special bond with the maid, Oletta. Then there's the glamorous and sometimes mischievous neighbor, Thelma Goodpepper, who has a real live peacock and a claw-footed bathtub in her backyard. She likes to relax in the tub and watch the stars. Miss Hobbs is another neighbor, but she is not so congenial. She puts on airs and CeeCee has a bit of fun at her expense. For a girl who's just lost her mother emotional healing is long and hard road. But living with Aunt Tootie and her new friends is a wonderful cushion to fall back on. In the end we see that CeeCee's "...life had begun to blossom as sweetly as a Georgia peach."
(Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt (London: Pamela Dorman/Penguin Book, 2010), 259.)
I recommend this book for any age bracket. It's heart-breaking, heart-warming, and funny. Beth Hoffman has such a great writing style you won't want to put it down. Read other reviews at readinginthegarden.blogspot.com
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