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From: Connie Rockman <connie.rock_at_snet.net>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 13:48:00 -0400
Another contemporary novel that highlights the working poor is Ann Haywood Leal's Also Known as Harper. Harper's mother has named her after her favorite author, and Harper herself wants to be a writer and to enter a 6th grade poetry contest ... but she has to drop out of her school when her family is evicted from the house they are renting. She learns about people making do with very little when her mother moves them to a motel that has a tent city behind it - a community of people who support each other and set up a schedule for using the bathroom in one of the motel's empty rooms. Small telling details make this an unforgettable glimpse into the lives of people who are one paycheck away from disaster. Connie
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 13:48:00 -0400
Another contemporary novel that highlights the working poor is Ann Haywood Leal's Also Known as Harper. Harper's mother has named her after her favorite author, and Harper herself wants to be a writer and to enter a 6th grade poetry contest ... but she has to drop out of her school when her family is evicted from the house they are renting. She learns about people making do with very little when her mother moves them to a motel that has a tent city behind it - a community of people who support each other and set up a schedule for using the bathroom in one of the motel's empty rooms. Small telling details make this an unforgettable glimpse into the lives of people who are one paycheck away from disaster. Connie
---Received on Sat 14 May 2011 01:48:00 PM CDT
