![]() ![]() S-Recommended for senior high school students.Ī-Recommended for advanced students and adults. Gibson, who reads with a young girl's voice, understands the personalities of this family, voicing especially well Jeannette and her artist mother. Her father's shocking perfidy, her mother's callous selfishness, their gross fights, and her repeated dodging of sexual exploitation make this a book not well suited to young students, but mature teens will ponder the confused roots of poverty, its uncertain effect on children, and how persons achieve the American dream. The family lived in California and Nevada, Phoenix and West Virginia when their luck ran out, the law or bill collector, often both, were on their heels. She knew empty fridges and the attendant growling stomach, thrift store clothes, drunken furies, dreams of quick riches, a house falling apart, the contempt of others, the value of schools and libraries, and the need to be resourceful beyond her years. ![]() SAĪ model of youthful resilience comes vividly into focus as listeners follow Walls through a childhood caught between hero worship of her feckless father and only slightly less dysfunctional mother and her drive to create a better life.
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