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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dovey Coe (2000)di Frances O'Roark Dowell
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The appealing strength of "Dovey Coe" rests entirely on the shoulders of the feisty but charming eponymous narrator. Dovey Coe is a 12 year old girl in the mountains of North Carolina in 1928. After a miserable summer of barely tolerating her big sister's vile suitor, the young man is found murdered, with young Dovey Coe standing beside him, bloody knife in her hand. She is brought to trial for murder. The story line is interesting, but by the time we get to the true meat of the plot, the astute reader will have already solved the mystery, and the courtroom drama feels rushed; with a solution so obvious it stretches credibility that the sheriff, judge, attorneys, etc. hadn't solved the issue before it reached the courtroom. However, the first person narration is so well written, and Dovey is so likable (at least to me) that the weaknesses of the book are easily forgiven. And it is after all written for a much younger reader than myself - a 50 year old father of two, who is on a kick of reading YA novels lately. *SPOILER* Dovey and her family like in the hills of North Carolina. Well-to-do Parnell has been pursuing Dovey’s older sister Caroline, who plans to leave and study to become a teacher. There is no love lost between Dovey and Parnell, and when Parnell is found dead by a blow to the head, Dovey is the suspect. Ending rather pat, I thought; too easy. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It's unlikely Parnell would have wanted to help Amos in any way, hence me thinking it would have been a terrible school Amos could have possibly been sent to. It's highly possible Parnell wanted to break up the family, but there's nothing to state it wasn't a Deaf school he'd try to send Amos off to, if Dovey's dad had let him. This doesn't happen, but Dovey thinks it will. Parnell is used to getting his way due to his father using money to influence people. This line of thinking and Dovey's statement to her father about it never bothered me before. I'd always read it as further examples that Parnell was a mean, spoiled teenager. Now, tonight, my eyes widened. A twelve-year-old told her middle-aged father she thought he'd let a seventeen-year-old boy send off his own son. Dovey's dad understands her remark as such and she cries. He doesn't speak to her for a few days and...yeah. She takes it super personally. Dovey's going to be a terrible teenager, I realized for the first time.
Dovey's sister, Caroline, was arrogant as well. She's stated to be sensitive about folks thinking she's a just pretty face, only to use her beauty and flirting to--okay, "swindle" might not be the accurate word. Caroline convinces a boy to sell a pocketknife to Dovey and a handheld mirror to herself for much lower than asking price by flirting. The boy gladly accepts the lesser money, even though he acknowledges the consequences waiting for him at home, and asks Caroline out. This was all by chapter six.
I liked the descriptions of the setting and the world-building for the most part! The dialogue, too, painted such a grand picture. I'm glad I decided to read this again, so I could feel perfectly content donating it to the library. ( )