Straw Dreams

Rating:
Summary: Oprah should check out this one!
Review: Once a year John Brooks got the whole family around for a celebration of life. This year's is extra special. The reader learns amazing facts and secrets about the Brooks family, beginning in the year 1962. They deal with their wicked step-mother, who they refer to as "the evil one", a mean and lazy step-family, poverty, death, birth, and so much more! The main people followed are Emma, the middle child, and Ella, the oldest.

Here is a book that will touch you as so few do! It sends several heart felt messages for readers to clearly read and understand. One of them is that skin color does not matter in the least!

Rating:
Summary: Average
Review: This is the story of a family having to get used to living with a stepmother and step siblings after their mother dies, and their father marries the evil Elizabeth. The book is told through the middle child's eyes, Emma. The father is not strong enough to stand up to the evil one, and her kids. The books goes all the way until the kids are grown ups. The book has lots of surprises, and secrets that come out. The author tricked me on who the mother of monica was, I had the wrong sister in mind the whole book. The book is interesting, but kind of drags on after a point.