Jeannette Walls

Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.

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The silver star

Derek Barlas

Jeannette Ordas

This was disappointing considering how much I loved Jeannette Walls' non-fiction books. Her first novel felt very flat and too clean, especially since the story subject is messy and ripe for opportunity. Instead, this book read like a tv movie of the week with the right amount of chipper and bland. Hoped for better.

Shawna Gavas

Sisters Liz and Bean have been moved from place to place by their mother who is "trying to find the magic". The girls are frequently left to their own devices as their mother chases her dreams. Then one day, a nosy neighbour begins to question the whereabouts of their mother and they are forced to flee. They head to their Uncle's house whom they haven't seen in over a decade. He takes the girls in and they find they rather like it there. Liz decides she and Bean need to find jobs to pay for some back to school clothing, since it looks like their mother won't be collecting them anytime soon. Against their uncle's wishes, the girls find employment from Jerry Maddox. Maddox is a controlling, domineering man who is known for hitting on woman all over town. Things appear to be going well, until the unthinkable happens to Liz. 

In a town that is dealing with racial integration and some very antiquated and backward opinions, Liz endures a trial....and Bean has to face the fact that regardless how brave you are, justice is not always served...or is it?

Overall the book moved at a steady pace, yet it was slow. The storyline itself was a little on the dry side...their was no clear climax to the story. No surprises. To be honest, I expected much more and this book just did not deliver.

A stunning, heartbreaking novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult world - a triumph of imagination and storytelling. It is 1970. 'Bean' Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman who 'flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble', takes off to 'find herself'. She leaves the girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that has been in the family for generations. An impetuous optimist, Bean discovers who her father was and learns many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight, so Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Madox, foreman of the mill in town, a big man who bullies workers, tenants and his wife. Bean adores her whip-smart older sister, inventor of word games, reader of Edgar Allan Poe, non-conformist. But when school starts in the autumn, it is Bean who easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz who becomes increasingly withdrawn. And then something happens between Liz and Maddox... 'Tragic and comic at the same time... an outrageous story, one that will break your heart' Sunday Independent 'There isn't a shred of self-pity in this deeply compassionate book' Marie Claire ***Half Broke Horses (S&S, 2009) 'Has immense power and readibility... What it does with aplomb is to track the birth of a nation: the conjuring of modern America from a scorched, dusty wasteland' The Times

The Silver Star

Sarah Chauvidon

Really liked this book. The girls were great. Definitely recommend this book.

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Milana Marie Waller

(4.5)

Jeanette walls books are always unique , and this one did not disappoint , though it definitely wasn’t at good as glass castle , but not many books are that good so what am I saying ? 


and although this book ended in death , it was a very happy ending .


but yea

read this book . probably before you read glass castle , if you haven’t read it yet .

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