Tag: Kate DiCamillo

  • REVIEW of The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

    REVIEW of The Magician’s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo

    Living in a freezing garret with a disabled soldier who knew his late father, Peter Augustus Duchene spends his young life wondering what happened to the baby sister he remembers being born, the baby sister named Adele. He finds a fortuneteller who claims that his sister is alive. To find her, he must “follow the…

  • REVIEW of Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

    REVIEW of Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

    When Opal moves to Naomi, Florida with her father, the Preacher, she doesn’t know a soul. Her mother up and left them many years ago, and Opal has a lonely ache in her heart. While shopping in the local grocery store, Opal meets a gregarious mutt whom she claims as her own and names Winn-Dixie.…

  • REVIEW of The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

    REVIEW of The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

    Rob Horton lives in a Florida motel with his father, a father who refuses to speak the name of his dead mother, a father who hit him at the funeral to stop him from crying. The school bullies beat Rob up on the bus every day, A rash on his legs makes him the target…

  • REVIEW of Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo

    REVIEW of Louisiana’s Way Home by Kate DiCamillo

    Louisiana Elefante has been torn away from everything she knows. In the middle of the night, her granny bundles her in the car to take her across the state line from Florida into Georgia, muttering dire predictions about the curse that has caught up with them. After running out of gas, making an emergency trip…