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Summary: reminds me of home
Review: I was touched deeply of the courage of Janey Larkin. She knew that one day she would live out her dream of finding a new home just like her prized "blue willow plate". Janey's father moved from one place to another to look for work. Each season ending, he moved. This story depicts courage as a strong and mighty force through the eyes of one little migrant girl, Janey.
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Summary: I Love Happy Endings
Review: If you are yearning for a book with great adult role models, read this one. It is so refreshing to read about adults who are positive and who persevere during hard times. Written in a time when government handouts were not the norm, the adults take responsibility for just doing what they need to do in order to survive. Their hard work pays off and the reader is treated to a happy ending. You just want to cheer for this family.
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Summary: I Love Happy Endings
Review: If you are yearning for a book with great adult role models, read this one. It is so refreshing to read about adults who are positive and who persevere during hard times. Written in a time when government handouts were not the norm, the adults take responsibility for just doing what they need to do in order to survive. Their hard work pays off and the reader is treated to a happy ending. You just want to cheer for this family.
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Summary: A WILLOW FOR WISHING
Review: Janey Larkin has grown up the daughter of migrant workers, with no roots and skimpy education. Her family occupies an empty shack while Dad works in the cotton fields, but she yearns to attend a real school (as opposed to a "camp" school) and live in a permanent home, so she can make friends. Janey's prized possession (from her great grandmother) is a lovely plate with the blue and white Chinese pagoda willow pattern. Her unrealistic dream is to live in such a house by a lovely willow. Then her mother becomes ill and they can not pay the rent (extorted by the vicious, dishonest foreman who pockets the money). Janey contemplates making the biggest sacrifice of her life, to help her parents. This stark tale blends agrarian poverty with a young girl's dreams of self- improvement, happiness and family unity. Despite the despair of the plot--stacked against the squatters--there is hope, as human kindness and rural justice struggle to take root and bloom, like the willow by the creek. Yet how can Janey bear to part with her beloved plate? A thoughtful book that will touch the reader's heart.
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Summary: Not Exciting But Useful
Review: Janey Larkin is the girl who has to move to anther place following her father to work. When her mother is sick, the family must live at this place. She lives at Anderson's house. Bounce is a person who collects the rent but he did not give it to Anderson. Janey has a willow plate that she likes it a lot. On the plat, there is a picture of a bridge, a willow, three people and the Chinese house. She wishes that she would have a house like on the plate. One day, her mother is so sick and they do not have money, so she gives the willow plate to Bounce as the rent. After that Mr. Anderson and The Larkin found that Bounce defrauded them. Finally, Janey has a happy life like she wanted, when the family settled in that place of Mr. Anderson and he father get a job that was Bounce. I do not think I like this story because the subject matter is normal, nothing exciting. But, at least, this story teaches the reader to see the value of money, relationship between friends and relation in family. Actually, this book is good for children to know about reality of life.
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Summary: Janey Larkin's family constantly moves around.
Review: Janey wants to stay in one place for at least one year. When they find a shed to stay in until there's no more work for her father, Janey meets a new friend and a very nice teacher. Janey wants to stay, but when it's time to move on, she figures out that the man collecting the rent was a fake and he was keeping the money for himself. The man who was supposed to be collecting the money found out and gave Janey's father the job the fake money collector had had before he was fired. Then they could stay in that place as long as they want to
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Summary: Nice children's book with a happy ending!
Review: This is a nice story about a young girl who yearns for a home that she can call her own. Janey travels with her father and stepmother to wherever her father can find seasonal work.Her most valued possession is a Blue Willow plate that belonged to her mother, who died when she was young. Finally the family settles in a place where Janey makes friends, but it is inevitable that they will have to leave when there is no more work. When her mom falls ill, Janey departs with her precious plate. This story has a happy ending where good triumphs over bad, and there is a great focus on the love between family members. It's a little sappy, but we can all use that kind of ending now and then
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