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Crossing The Tracks (2010)

by Barbara Stuber(Favorite Author)

3.95 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416997032 (ISBN13: 9781416997030)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Margaret K. McElderry Books

review 1: Crossing the Tracks is solidly good young adult fiction. Set in the 1920s, it concerns a motherless 15-year-old girl, Iris, who is sent by her father (and his well-meant, but grasping girlfriend) to minister to an elderly woman and her adult doctor son. Little does Iris know that the elderly woman is down, but not entirely out, with plenty of wisdom to impart to Iris. She, and her doctor-son, are just the sort of surrogate parents Iris needs as she experiences what unfolds over the course of the summer. All, naturally, comes out in the wash by novel's end, but it is no less enjoyable for this happy ending.
review 2: Five year old Iris hides beneath her mother’s coffin. It’s just her and her emotionally distant father now. Ten years later her father, p... morereoccupied with his shoe store and preparing for remarriage, sends her away to work for a country doctor and his elderly mother. “Crossing the Tracks” is a beautifully written story set in 1920’s Missouri. It’s about grief and loss, love and loyalty and redefining the meaning of home and family. I absolutely loved this book and highly recommend it. less

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