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A Month Of Sundays (2011)

by Ruth White(Favorite Author)

3.48 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374399123 (ISBN13: 9780374399122)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

review 1: This was a sweet read-aloud, though I have to admit to not reading the last four or five pages out loud. It wasn't because they weren't appropriate (not very many books aimed at youngsters can be inappropriate for a seven-month old!) It was because I got caught up in the emotion of the end of the story. By the time I noticed I'd stopped reading out loud, I only had a paragraph to go. Very bitter-sweet book, consistently told the entire way through. Definitely recommended, but beware of reading to kids who have dealt with a recent loss or who might not understand themes of death, young love, or illness.
review 2: Set in the mid-1950's, a young teen girl goes to live with relatives she has never met while her mother resettles in Florida and looks for work. The r... moreelatively brief novel doesn't have a lot of popular culture references to the '50's but it is clear this is of another time - there is a nice innocence to the story. Garnet is embraced by her new family - especially her Aunt (sister to Garnet's father), and although older readers will predict that Garnet's father will show up, the story is not predictable. There is a nice subplot about religion - Garnet accompanies her Aunt to a difference church each Sunday. Religion isn't mocked but it is also not promoted, which is nice for the nonbeliever, and you can see that faith and religion is something important to many people. A refreshing read, without a lot of drama, but with honest emotion that is not overwrought. less

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