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Summary: Three cheers for Dovey
Review: As a teacher, I read Dovey Coe because of it's place on the Georgia Book Awards Nominee list. My students will be reading this book to determin if it is one of the best young adult books of the year and it gets my vote.Dovey is a young mountain girl living through the worst of the depression. When her beautiful older sister publicly rejects the richest (and meanest) boy in their small town and decides to go to college instead, he ends up dead, and Dovey ends up covered in his blood. This is a good young adult mystery. It is about the love of a family and the bonds that tie them. It is about living with a disability and fighting the public stigma of that. Girls and boys will love Dovey Coe. She speaks her mind and pull no punches. In the end, it is her wit that may make the difference in whether or not she goes to jail.
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Summary: Thrilling and suspenseful
Review: Dovey Coe
This thrilling novel is about a young girl named Dovey Coe whose older sister, Caroline, is being courted by the richest and meanest boy in town, Parnell Caraway. Dovey can't stand Parnell because of how mean he is to her older brother, Amos, just because he is deaf. She doesn't like the fact that he is courting Caroline either! Dovey wishes Parnell would just take his fancy car and leave her and her family alone. So when Parnell is found dead everyone thinks that Dovey was the one that killed him. Dovey Coe is an excellent story that kept me on the edge of my seat full of suspense. I just couldn't put it down! Frances O'Roark Dowell did a great job making each paragraph draw you deeper into the story. The rich descriptions and details of Indian Creek, North Carolina only make it better. I like how the book is written in first person and past tense so Dovey is telling the story. It is also written with a southern accent because Dovey is from North Carolina. I would strongly recommend reading Dovey Coe if you like books with vigorous plots and great characters that make the story come alive.
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Summary: Dovey Coe
Review: Dovey Coe by Francis O'roark is a fabulous book. If you like murder mysteries you will love this book. It's about a girl named Dovey Coe who's sister is the talk of the town and who's brother is deaf.Haughty Parnell wants to marry Caroline Dovey's sister but she said "no".Somebody has killed Parnell!Who did it?Read and find out!
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Summary: Dovey Coe
Review: I picked up this book thinking it would be more of a western novel, but after the first few pages I knew I was obligated to read it. Dovey had a very strong character and really expressed her opinion on every little detail. The court case is what interested me the most, when the suggestion of her murdering Parnell was being tossed around the court room. This is a GREAT book and I reccomend it.
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Summary: I stayed up all night
Review: My daughter and I just got back from our annual camping trip in the Smoky Mountains. Normally, we pack several books to read by the campfire. Usually we settle on my old Nancy Drews, but this year, my daughter wanted to pick something new and so we stopped by the bookstore and got Dovey Coe and The Wanderer by Sharon Creech. Usually my daughter's taste and mine do not collide, but this year while reading Dovey we relocated some common ground. The story, about a smart but tough young mountain girl accused of murder and caught up in cirumstances out of her control, gripped both of us. My daughter found that she shared much with Dovey's tough-minded vision of the world while I found I just wanted to protect her. We stayed up well into the night reading chapters aloud to each other. Later that weekend, the book sparked a number of interesting discussions between us about justice,stubborness, pride, and how a girl should act. (My daughter actually began talking like Dovey during the weekend, which I found amusing...) I would recommend this book to mother-daughter bookclubs. My daughter and I are both looking forward to the next book by Frnaces Dowell.
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