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Summary: A refreshing read
Review: Novalee Nation, 17, was left at Wal-Mart with $7.77 to her name. The #7 is one bad number for her, her luck gets worse before it gets better. Novelee lives in the Wal-Mart constantly keeping track on what she eats, wears, and borrows from the store. This story is a very light-hearted story about struggle and surviving. It is about a neighborhood who embraces this young woman and her child (who was in born in Wal-Mart) into their lives. They give her a place to live, food, and anything else that she needs. She becomes a star based on her childs birth and comes to love the small town that she will begin to call home. This book is absolutely wonderful and so refreshing. It sends the true message of giving from the heart. I think anyone who reads this book will enjoy it.
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Summary: This book is where my heart is
Review: Novalee is seven months pregnant when her boyfriend leaves her at a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma. She lives there for two months and her baby is born there, the friends that she makes don't know where she lives and she won't tell them. After Americus is born she moves in with Sister Husband and for awhile she lives there. Then a twister comes and their house is destroyed and she goes to live with Moses Whitecotton and his wife Certain. She then learns that the land that Sister Husband's home was on is now hers and she builds a home for just her and Americus. Follow Novalee's triumphs and failures in this heart-wrenching book of past mistakes made right. This book will make you laugh and cry with delight. I could not put it down until I was done. I was astounded by the kindness that was shown to Novalee and the way that people took her into their lives. It also shows the life of her boyfriend and what happens to him; you'll find that justice is served. This book shows that the power of love will conquer all. Fiction
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Summary: A good cry, if you dig that sorta thing
Review: Letts creates a really likeable, although perhaps too stereotyped, portrait of a woman who grows up poor and rises to something better. There were some quibbles I had with the book, and a couple of characters seem stuck in there to fill roles, such as "best female friend of Novalee" and those characters weren't very developped but overall, the entertainment value of the book is good. I cried, I must admit, as I am a sappy gal. If you don't have time to read the book, see the movie. They're close to the same.
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Summary: Where The Heart Is- Review
Review: I chose "Where The Heart Is" because I enjoy reading books that are about someone's life, true stories or where you can learn something about what life may throw at you. I'm a seventeen year old girl and the young girl in my book was also seventeen. I thought the girl had a lot of gut's and put up with a lot of stuff that I'm not sure if I could. I can put with a lot but I do draw a line somewhere. I could relate well to most everything that happened in my book. Navalee who was the main character had a very stressful life, got pregnant and her boyfriend left her behind at Wal-Mart. I think this book is an inspiration to all teenagers that think they can handle having a baby at such a young age. Granted, Navalee got along ok but it was hard at times. Today I a lot of teenagers give up on themselves because they don't think anyone cares about them or they don't care what happens to them. I would recommend this book to anyone but I think girls would like it more because they understand themselves better than guy's do and they can relate to girl stuff better too. Guy's also enjoy reading books about hunting, sports or adventure. I hope you enjoy the book!!
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Summary: Where The Heart Is Review
Review: "Where The Heart Is" Billie Letts I chose "Where The Heart Is" because I enjoy reading books that are about someone's life, true stories or where you can learn something about what life may throw at you. I'm a seventeen year old girl and the young girl in my book was also seventeen. I thought the girl had a lot of gut's and put up with a lot of stuff that I'm not sure if I could. I can put with a lot but I do draw a line somewhere. I could relate well to most everything that happened in my book. Navalee who was the main character had a very stressful life, got pregnant and her boyfriend left her behind at Wal-Mart. I think this book is an inspiration to all teenagers that think they can handle having a baby at such a young age. Granted, Navalee got along ok but it was hard at times. Today I a lot of teenagers give up on themselves because they don't think anyone cares about them or they don't care what happens to them. I would recommend this book to anyone but I think girls would like it more because they understand themselves better than guy's do and they can relate to girl stuff better too. Guy's also enjoy reading books about hunting, sports or adventure. I hope you enjoy the book!!
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Summary: Reader's Response 2
Review: A seventeen year old, seven months pregnant girl, named Novalee, was on her way to California with her boyfriend. While traveling, she stopped inside a Wal-Mart to use the restroom, where her boyfriend abandon her. For two weeks, Novalee lived inside Wal-Mart, delivered her baby inside the store, and had to adapt and depend on the people of this tiny town in Oklahoma. This particular book was interesting and very different than any other book I've read in the past. The first few chapters of most books are dull and boring. However, the first few chapters of Where the Heart Is were just as exciting as the last few chapters. Billie Letts, the author, introduces numerous characters throughout the entire book. These characters were unique and all had extremely different personalities. Each chapter started with a different scene or event, which left the reader anxious to read on. I really liked the different moods that the characters portrayed throughout the story. At times, the characters were happy, sad, excited, or scared. The quote,"That's where the heart is," page 353 really set the author's style and sent a good message to the reader. The author used this quote a couple of times throughout the story to describe various things. After finishing some books, I don't understand what the title had anything to do with the book. This quote could be connected back to the title, which would help the reader understand the main plot of the story. The same quote also sent a good message to its readers. It doesn't matter where someone is in the world or what they're doing, as long as their heart is there with them. From various personal experiences, I've learned that if a person does not have their heart into what they're doing, then they don't try their best at it, and they bring everyone else down. In the book, Novalee moved from city to city a lot, but she only had her heart in one town where she felt at home. Where the Heart Is was an excellent story. I would suggest this book to anyone. The chapters were short and the reading was fast. This book was one of those books that I could never put down. I always had to read on to find out what happened next. The vocabulary was average. Some words were easy and some were hard to comprehend. I would not suggest this story to a male because the story is about love, and wrote more for a female.
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Summary: Where The Heart Is Review
Review: Meet Novalee Nation, a highly superstitious seventeen year old, seven months pregnant and stranded at Wal-Mart with seven dollars and seventy-seven cents in her pocket. Abandoned by her boyfriend in Sequoia, Oklahoma on their way to California, Novalee will soon discover that home is where your history begins. Wandering in and out of Wal-Mart in a haze of disbelief, she meets three people who end up playing major roles in her life in the years to follow. Moses Whitecotton, her mentor, Benny Goodluck, her inspiration and Sister Thelma Husband, her sponsor on life's journey. Novalee's first nightis spent, after being accidentally, or perhaps fate-ly, locked inside the store, waiting for her history to begin. Sleeping in Wal-Mart every night, surviving on canned foods from the shelves (of which she keeps an exact detailed price list, in order to pay her debt someday) Novalee sneaks out through the employees entrance into the world of small town, America. The library draws her in search of a cure for her sick tree, and here she finds a man who will grow to love her more than she loves herself. Overcoming her childhood of abandonment and growing up with neighbors, Novalee becomes a woman, a mother and finds herself along the way. Living under the tin roof of Sister Husband's trailer, Novalee loyally works at Wal-Mart while discovering her deep love for her daughter and her passion for photography. She grows to love herself as she develops from the empty frame of feeling unloved and unwanted to the picture of a confident, self fulfilled woman who learns to look fear straight in the eye. Billie Letts' debut novel is a glimpse into the every day of American people. Letts has breathed life into her characters that lead you by the heartstrings through their stories. I couldn't wait to read the next chapter, yet I didn't want the experience to end. This is a must read, not because it is on Oprah's Book Club list, but because, it is a book for all walks of society, reaching out to people where they live; Where the Heart Is.
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Summary: Ok for a beach book but not very filling
Review: This book was cute but light, not something to really involve the reader, or anything you take something home from.
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Summary: Where the Heart Is
Review: "Where the Heart Is," is a story of a seventeen year old girl named Novalee Nations who is dumped by her boyfriend at a local Wal-Mart. To make matters worse Novalee happens to be seven months pregnant with her boyfriend's baby. Bille Letts has written a marvelous novel which takes you into the heart of a seventeen year old girl's and how she faces all her challenges at such a young age. Letts has the ability to make her characters seem realistic. As a reader you feel the emotions that all the characters feel. You are able to put yourself in their shoes. Truly a touching and captivating novel. Don't miss it.
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Summary: Where the Heart Is
Review: I have never enjoyed reading very much but I became totally captived from the very first page. Where the Heart Is, entertains and inspires in a way that is sure to capture any reader who longs for a good old-fashioned, heartwarming story. The pregant seventeen year-old Novalee Nation believes that she is leaving her hard life behind her in Tennessee and starting fresh with her baby's father in Bakersfield, California. What she does not bargin for is being abandoned outside a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah, Oklahoma, with only $7.77. We watch the struggling teenager become a mother, a women, and finally a lover. Novalee may have been lost in Tennessee, but she finds herself in Oklahoma.
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