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Summary: An all-time favorite
Review: "The Ballad Of Lucy Whipple" is one of my all-time favorite books. The book itself was well-written; Cushman has a habit of making all the characters come to life. I enjoyed some fo the terms that the miners used such as "worried as a duck in the dester" and "Dag diggety". I read this book over and over, and I reccomend you read it, too....go out and buy it, faster than you can spit and holler howdy!
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Summary: Karen Cushman has done it again
Review: and I wish she had come along earlier. (I'm 19 so I'm a little out of the age bracket.) I read my 10-year-old sister's copy of 'Lucy Whipple' when I went home for Christmas. In the tradition if 'Catherine, Called Birdy' (I am pleased to say that I introduced my mother and sisters to this fine book) and 'The Midwife's Apprentice' comes another engaging heroine. Lucy Whipple is no Spice Girl: she is, instead, a realistic girl with real emotions and a good role model for the girls of today.
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Summary: The Ballad of Lucy Whipple
Review: Author: Karen Cushman Publisher: Clarion Books This book was published in 1996 in New York, NYI have just finished this book and it was very exiting and adventurous.
This book is about a girl named California who wants to be called Lucy but her mom calls her California. She moved by wagon from Massachusetts to California. She loves to read and write to her grandparents in Massachusetts.
Lucy lives in Lucky Diggings, California during the gold rush between 1849 and 1852. Her dad and baby sister died before they moved to California. Now she has two sisters and a brother. Her sisters' names are Prairie and Sierra; her brother's name is Butte.
I encourage young and older readers to read The Ballad of Lucy Whipple especially because it's adventurous and interesting.
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Summary: Hey, you!!! Read it!
Review: Before I read this book, I thought that people would go West and look in the dirt, and there would be a gigantic gold nugget just laying there. I also thought people would just go West to find Gold, and I never once thought people came to do anything else besides look for gold. Boy was I wrong. Karen Cushman shows what it was really like. Most books just talk about finding gold, but Lucy and Karen, together, show that that wasn't the only thing on people's minds. Karen Cushman is such a talented writer, I can't say enough about her. I loved "The Midwife's Apprentice", and "Catherine, Called Birdy", is as great as the other two so far. I couldn't put any of them down. Karen Cushman is a great author, and "The Ballad of Lucy Whipple" is her best yet.
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Summary: The Hard Way
Review: Have you ever moved away from your hometown? California did. Or in this case "Lucy". She dosn't like the name or the place, neither suit her. "Lucy" moved from Massachusettes, her homestate to California because her father died. Lucky Diggins, California, anyway thats where she moved to. She wants to move right back to Massachusettes.
Then next thing you know "Lucy's" mom is running a boarding house, where the miners Lucky Diggins stay. Lucy does not like it one bit, but her mama don't care. It's loud and rude and so are they(the miners) They spit, asgentlemen will do, in the dirt. Then in comes another man, he's not a miner but a priest. Then he and mama get married. His name is Brother Clyde. He finds his head in his hands because he doesnt't know where to get married. But finally they figure it out, right there in Lucky-Diggins. What an adventure for Miss Lucy. Her mother and Brother Clyde are going to the "Sandwich Islands". Mama, Brother Clyde, Sierra,and Prairie (her sisters)are going to the "Sandwich Islands" but will Lucy go or not? Will her family come back home for her? To find out you should read this book, I guarantee you, you will like this book, cause I sure did.
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Summary: A Good Book!
Review: Have you ever wondered what it was like to live in a California mining camp during the mid-1800's? This book describes what it was like. The book is about a girl named California Morning Whipple who moves to California with her mother, her brother, and her two sisters. She hates living in a mining camp, and she decides to change her name to Lucy because "I cannot hate California and be California." All in all, this book is great!
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Summary: Lucy Whipple- a great book!
Review: I enjoyed Lucy Whipple because it had different situations in it like when she gets mad at her mom because her mom told her she didn't work hard enough, and when some men say that they wanted to marry her mom. The main character was California Whipple. She had to move to the state of California, because everyone thought there was more gold there than in Massachusettes. When California got there she hated what she saw and changed her name to Lucy. When she thought she should tell her mom that she had changed her name she was scared that her mom would get mad at her. Lucy wanted to make money so she could go back to Massachusetts. So she decided to start a pie selling business. She started to get up early in the morning so she could bake the pies and then go sell them to the miners. She loses her family's mule, Sweethart is it's name. She loses it because she puts the halter down on the green grass and wanders off and gets lost all at the same time. If you want to know more, read this book for yourself, I'm sure you'll like it.
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Summary: A bit disapointing
Review: I got this book as a gift as as soon as I saw the Author I was heavily pleased.
The problem is the main Character is not like a girl would be in her situation, she's all together too modern.
Also (( If you've never read I'm warning this ruins the book. )) When her brother dies...she doesn't show the emotion one might if your brother died. And her insistant pleading with wanting to go home annoyed me horribly so much I hardly re-read it, only when I'm bored of all my other books.
It did have some good points like when she befriended the town weirdo, though I think they tread on the subject of abuse lightly. And the Author did have a way with PUTTING the words so that it did get a 3 star.
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Summary: I liked the book
Review: I liked the book. I enjoyed Lucy's letters to Gram and Grampop. I wish they had written back. My favorite characters were Lucy and Snowshoe Ballou. Lucy loved to read and she was very funny in her imagination.
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Summary: This was *great*!
Review: I LOVED The Ballad of Lucy Whipple! I learned a lot about history and it was a great story! This is a must read!!
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