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Backwater (r/i) |
Author: Joan Bauer
Published: 2005-06-02 |
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 Black Sheep
Ivy's entire huge extended family seems to be made up of loud lawyers. Her father and her uncle and, it seems, everyone else of any importance in the Breedlove clan, are lawyers. Ivy often feels out of place; she doesn't want to be a lawyer. She doesn't like to shout or argue, and she certainly doesn't feel like going to law school, despite the brochures her father keeps leaving around in her room.
Ivy wants to be a historian. She is very interested in most types of history and enjoys especially knowing where she came from. Her great aunt started researching their family history years ago, but then she rapidly began losing her eyesight. She turned the project over to Ivy. Now with her great aunt's eightieth birthday celebration approaching, Ivy is eager to get the project done and to prove to her aunt Fiona that having a written book is just as important, and maybe even more important, than the video Fiona is putting together.
But there is a crucial part of the Breedlove family history that is missing--Ivy's aunt Josephine. No one in the family has seen her or had any communication with her for years. She had always been sort of strange, according to Ivy's father, and as an adult she went way up into the mountains near their family home to live by herself. Now it has become important for Ivy to find her and talk to her. So she hires a wilderness guide to lead her through the wintery trails to her aunt's place on the mountain.
This story was similar to Bauer's other stories, but each of her tales has a unique twist and very strong and likable characters. The narrator was talented and thoughtful, and Josephine was always true to herself. The rest of the Breedlove family, although loud and aggressive, were still a pretty close-knit group. This was a good story about the pressure faced by the black sheep of a family.
 Backwater
Backwater, by Joan Bauer was a good book. This book was about a young teenager, Ivy Breedlove, who was trying to find out about her family history. She wanted to be different from her family of lawyers, and when her family found out, they said she was like her Aunt Joesphine. Joesphine is a character who didnt care about what anyone thought of her, she also did not want to become a lawyer, and she ended up living in the mountains all alone, in her cabin with the birds.
Backwater
This book is really good. I like this book because its about real life things and its about a girl going to see her Aunt that has went up to the mountain to get away from her problems. Her Aunt ends up making her own little town called Backwater. Her Aunt is mayor Backwater whitch is a town with birds all around it there is a bird house and a bird hospital in the town. But the end is really good. The end is a tree falls on the house that her aunt lives in, and breaks her Aunts leg so Ivy has to put her Aunt on a sled,and bring her the ranger house for her Aunt while shes going over a frozen pond.Read it its really good!
Backwater
I like this book because i like adventure things. I like to search for new things. I would love to meet my family members that i have never seen or heard about. I always strive for what i want, kinda like Ivy did to find her aunt. I can relate to Ivy. If i ever found one of my aunts in the woods i would ask/want her to come back home to stay with the family. I personaly love the outdoors. I like to hear the birds cherping and all the natural sounds. I like birds, kinda like her aunt Josephine.
Backwater
This is a good book for kids that like a adventure and excitement. Evy has to find is long lost aunt before her grandmas birthday. Now she has help and wants to write a report on her family';s history. Her family is a long line of lawyers, but Evy doesn't want to be a lawer sh wants to be a social worker like her mother was. She wants to help people. So if you want to find out if her anut is dead or alive I would suggest reading this book. This was a really good book! It is well written and it has a lot of details and you will enjoy this book.
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