Rating:  Summary: Creech Fans Should Maybe Skip This... Review: This book is a bit dissapointing. Sharon doesn't work her magic into it as much as her other books. The book just flows through, with only a bit of exciting moments. I recomend this to Creech Fans...but it may be appeeling to the younger audience. I am thirteen, and I didn't find it that interesting. I am a person who re-reads books alot, but I dont think I'll be doing that here.13 year old Dallas and Florida live in a Orphanage that is dready and hateful. They were known as the "Trouble Twins"..Sairy and Tiller, who are 60 yrs old, there kids are long gone, and they want to have an adventure, so they take Dallas and Florida from the orphanage and they have many adventures across the land. They enjoy spending their time with them, and maybe, even keep them...
Rating:  Summary: Ruby Holler Review: This book is about a brother and sister Dallas and Florida and there life at Ruby Holler and Boxton Creek Home. This story made me read all in two night beacuse of how adventures it is.If your a young kid and want to read an interesting book I REACOMEND THIS BOOK.
Rating:  Summary: The Troubling Twins Review: This book is for kids that like adventure books. In this book you can't stop reading because it will be very good. Also in here two twins are touble makers that have a hard time fitting in. This book is made for kids that are or think that they are trouble makers. This book is a whole bunch of fun for those kids that have a hard time finding a good book. This book is also good for kids who are best friends. The twins in here never separate until they go on a trip, but other than that they will never ,ever separate.In addition if you think you have weird names? Think again because the kids (the main characters) have names such as Dallas and Florida! This book is also kind of sad because the kids got abused by their foster parents and parents who adopted them so they want to run away. They think everybody is mean after experiencing that. So they don't trust anybody. See this book also give people the idea of some orphanges. The orphanges can be good in some places, but in this book the orphange is a bad place. So in this book I think it is trying to say don't make people feel unwanted instead make them feel good and full of joy. Lastly,I think this is a good book and easy to read so check it out[!]
Rating:  Summary: THANK YOU SHARON CREECH!!![.] Review: This book is my absolutely FAVORITE book!!![.] It is about these 2 orphans, Florida and Dallas and they live in this terrible orhanage with these horrid people named the Trepids. Then, out of the blue, they get adopted by two people, Tiller and Sairy who are both quite the character. Tiller is a grumpy old man who at first does not like Dallas and Florida. Sairy loves them right at the start. She reminded me of my sweet grandma who gave me everything I ever wanted! Tiller and Sairy adopted the two siblings because they were going on seperate vacations and needed someone to go with them. Florida goes with Tiller and Dallas with Sairy. Then, while on a trial run for their vaction, something horribly scary happens to Tiller. Will everyone make it out alive? I absoluetly LOVED this book and I know you will too!
Rating:  Summary: The best book Review: This book was a GREAT book. I fell in love with the characters at once. It's about two little orphans who are trouble makers. Everytime someone adopts them they end up back where they started. Finally they find an odd pair who loves them dearly.
Rating:  Summary: But where's the rest of it? Review: This book was on a summer reading list for school, and because I had enjoyed some of Sharon Creech's other books, I gave it a try. I remember waiting a while for things to get moving, but about halfway through I started to become more interested. The plot became more involving, the characters more lifelike. And then it ended. It ended so abruptly, in fact, that I wondered if while they were putting the book together they didn't just run out of ink. This is very disappointing, and even if she did come out with a sequel to resolve some of the many things she left unfinished in this book, I don't believe I'd read it. Ms. Creech, I hate to say it, but you let me down. As far as the two stars go, it's more like 1 1/2. You can consider the extra a pity half-star for the colorful and visually pleasing cover.
Rating:  Summary: Newbery Honor? Possibly. Review: This is a great book by Newbery Medal winning author Sharon Creech. The story is about 13-year-old twins Dallas and Florida who live at the Boxton Creek Home Orphanage, run by the awful Trepids. They have lived at many foster homes but always brought back to the orphanage. "Nothing but trouble," the adoptive parents say. "Nothing but trouble." That's how they became "the trouble twins". Tiller and Sairy are a 60-year-old couple whose kids are long gone. They want to go on an adventure while their bodies are still strong enough to climb a mountain, etc. Tiller and Sairy find Dallas and Florida at the Boxton Creek Home and take them on adventures. Sharon Creech's latest book is bound to enchant lovers of "Bloomability", "Absolutely Normal Chaos", "Chasing Redbird", and "Love That Dog", some of her other novels. Be sure to read this.It is definitely Newbery material. I strongly recommend it.
Rating:  Summary: BRILLIANT! Review: This is my favorite of all of Sharon Creeches books!! Its about two kids who are twins and live in a putrid orphanige and then go to ruby holler with an old couple and have adventtures. I really liked finding out what every character was thinking--especially the man named Z and the putrid Trepids. I read it 3 times all ready and listened to the tape too (which is really really funny). I hope there is a sequal to this book because I want to find out what happens next to the two kids.
Rating:  Summary: Not Bad!! Review: This was a great book. Not my fave Sharon Creech book, but quite good all the same. It is about twins Dallas and Florida. They are nicknamed the trouble twins. They have been booted from tons of foster homes. The Home they live in now is not a good one. But then daydreaming Dallas and forceful, crabby Florida get sent to yet another foster home. They try not to get too close to the old couple, but they realize that they like living there in Ruby Holler. Through trips with the couple, the twins reach into their hearts and spill the feelings that have been welling up inside them. Not a bad book. I've read better, but still very good.
Rating:  Summary: I liked this book and recommend it. Review: Though I normally prefer science fiction and fantasy books, I enjoyed Ruby Holler. It is somewhat similar to Holes by Louis Sachar in being a funny story with a few twists in which the good guys have previously suffered but eventually win. The book, which has a slight adventure story flavor, although it really isn't one, is about twins Dallas and Florida, orphans who have spent their entire lives in the care of mean, sometimes crazy, adults. When sent to Ruby Holler, a beautiful place in which there are only two houses, they are at first skeptical of the seemingly kind nature of the people with whom they are living, but then realize that these grown-ups are not so bad after all. I'm not sure how to describe this book, but it's definitely good, and I would recommend it to other kids.
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