| Holding Up the Earth Contributor(s): Gray, Dianne E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618737472 ISBN-13: 9780618737475 Publisher: Clarion Books OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: It has been eight years since Hope's mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope's newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets' chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time -- the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Lifestyles - Farm Life & Ranch Life - Juvenile Fiction | Family - Orphans & Foster Homes - Juvenile Fiction | Girls & Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 880 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.26" W x 7.6" (0.50 lbs) 210 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Geographic Orientation - Kansas |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 44289 Reading Level: 5.9 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 7.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: It has been eight years since Hope's mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope's newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets' chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time -- the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gray, Dianne E.: - Dianne E. Gray's first novel for young people, Holding Up the Earth, won a Willa Literary Award and was selected for the American Library Association's list of Best Books for Young Adults 2001. She grew up on the Nebraska prairie and now divides her time between Minnesota and Nevada. Gray, Dianne: - Dianne E. Gray's first novel for young people, Holding Up the Earth, won a Willa Literary Award and was selected for the American Library Association's list of Best Books for Young Adults 2001. She grew up on the Nebraska prairie and now divides her time between Minnesota and Nevada. |