Book 19 Feb 2009 09:08 am
Call Me Hope
If you want to read an amazing novel, check out Call me Hope by Gretchen Olson. Wow. It is written for the elementary age reader, but yeah, everyone should read it. Interestingly, this is my second “hope” story dealing with abuse. I read Hope’s boy, which is the story of one man’s life in the foster sister of California and how he continues to love his mother. That is true, but Call Me Hope is a novel.
The description from the Little, Brown/Hachette website.
Hope Elliot is an 11-year-old girl struggling to live under the pressures of her verbally abusive mother. But instead of running away, precocious Hope chooses resilience instead, and creates survival strategies for herself.
With these strategies: a support team that includes the employees of a used clothing store, the smartest kid in the sixth grade, and her older brother; and with the comfort from reading Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, will Hope be able to confront her mother about her hurtful words and help her begin to change?
It is a powerful novel that should be discussed before, during and after with whoever is reading it.
The author has a website, Gretchen Olson.com. That is an entirely different rant though, of how there needs to be at least 1 tech-friendly person in every author’s family that will keep their websites up to date. WordPress is your friend!
Regardless…
READ THIS BOOK. Make your 12 year old daughter READ THIS BOOK. Make your 59 year old aunt READ THIS BOOK.
MAKE EVERYONE READ THIS BOOK.
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