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Summary: Teaches Tolerance
Review: I teach at-risk high school students and I have purchased this book for my classroom library. I appreciate that it teaches tolerance in a way that is appropriate for the classrom. My high school students have enjoyed this book!
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Summary: Try a different book.
Review: If you're looking for a coming out story, this is it. If you're looking for a coming out story with a plot and realistic characters, this is NOT it. The characters, especially the main ones, are stereotypically flat. Even Evie, who should be the focal point, is never fully brought to life. Yes, she dresses masculine and she likes mechanical stuff, but who is she? What makes her fall in love with Patsy and Patsy with her? You'll never find out by reading this.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: It took me a day to finish, but it was totally worth it. The emotional atmosphere in this book is very tense. It has a terrific way of showing how a family deals with a gay family member. I would recomemend this book to tom-boys and person who has a tom-boy in there family. And even people dealing with a gay family member, or if you know someone that is gay.
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Summary: A griping tale about love, sacrifice, and family.
Review: Parr Burrman is growing up in a rural farming town in the midwest. Through his eyes we see four interwoven stories about love. He falls for the daughter of a tenant farmer, his sister "comes out" and begins dating the local tycoon's daughter, and his college-age brother Doug is enamored with his sorority sweetheart. Finally, a climatic flood helps show the whole family how to love each other again. Special Note for LA teachers: This book deals with the issue of homosexuality. It does so in a light way (no graphic detail), however if you feel the issue is not suitable for your classroom, be advised. If you need a book to cover this issue, then I highly recommend this one. The only thing that made me question this book was the way Kerr goes out of the way to have disaster strike the straight people while the gay people are living it up in Europe. I never would have noticed except the ALA Booklist review says it is not the typical old-style book on homosexuality which ends in disaster for gays. That review made the book seem like a reverse-discrimination work.
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Summary: Great Read!
Review: Personally I don't like the gay lifestyle, but this book helped me see where a gay person was coming from. I enjoyed it, it was a quick read. I read it in one day. I felt touched, because I grew up a tom-boy just like Evie, but not to extremes. The emotions in the book were geniune. I recommend this book to mothers with tom-boys and to tom-boys.
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Summary: A new perspective
Review: This book breaks all the rules we typically have about lesbians. not in the way they look, but how they feel. It centers around Evie, who is a lesbian. Her mother wants her to dress more like a woman, but she refuses.She says men's clothes are comfy. None of her family thinks anything of it until she begins becoming real good frinds with the bankowners daughter Patsy. Then she and Patsy both must stand up for what they believe in.
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Summary: A very interesting book
Review: This book involves a realistic situation in which Parr, the narrator, has to deal with the problems within his family. He has always wanted to get out of the farm, but now with his brother and sister turning their lives around, it nearly seems impossible to him. Evie, his sister that loved the farm, falls in love with the daughter of the richest man in town, which lowers her interest in staying a farmer. Along with these problems, Parr also has problems with his girlfriend. All this pressure on him leads him to do something that he will always regret. This book is very interesting, and also has a meaningful message on stereotypes.
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Summary: info on my book
Review: This book was great. I learned about the book. You shouldn't judge people by the way they are. In this book people was called things they shouldn't have been called. Also you have a little feelings about it when u read it. Something I noticed when I was reading this book was it wasn't really all about Evie it was based on her brother most of the time.
Parr is her 15 yrs old brother. He didn't really care much about his sister Evie. He cared mainly about his self. All he wanted was to get off the farm, and having his own family. If the story was from evie point of view it would have been different. I dont think it would have said a lot on her brother parr.
When everyone found out that Evie was a lesbian they tried to talk to her. Talking to her didn't work. To find out she was a lesbian was hard to get out of her. After a while from helping her they gave up. That goes to say if you can't convinced the person to be what the should don't try. Thats something I learned from this book. If you are gonna convinced somebody not to be something do it in a calm mature way.
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Summary: A Change In Attitudes
Review: This is the first book that I have ever read about a lesbian girl, Evie, and how her family has to deal with the comments and accusations, and haste rejections from their friends and neighbors. The story is told through Parr, Evie's brother, eyes and with every word, it almost seems that Evie is your sister, and Doug is your brother, and that you live on a farm. The fact that this story is told through Parr's perspective gives insight on what life was like for Evie. This book made me see the cruelness of people who you thought that you could rely on when it comes to homosexuality. With many books that focus around the male gay, this book showed just the opposite. Evie was portrayed as almost a rebel and a person that you would respect. This book has opened up doors for me into a whole new world of reading and I hope that others will read Deliver Us From Evie as an insight into something new. I hope to read more books that have characters just like Evie and Parr, put I know that Deliver Us From Evie will always be the best one.
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Summary: A girl named Evie who was different and farmed like a guy
Review: This story was about a girl named Evie who was different from many others. She got teased about looking like a boy. Her family had a farm and Evie would do mostly all of the work. She would always dress like a boy. Everyone would tell her to dress like a woman, but she really didn't want to. Her brother Parr would get embarrassed from her looking like a guy. The kids at school would call her a boy. Then comes the Duffs family,who owned the majority of the land, and many buildings. As you can see this story includes stereotyping. It is certainly worth reading, and shows you the difference between families.
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