Status
Available
Call number
Call number
PB Bur
Local notes
PB Bur
Collection
Series
Genres
Publication
Puffin Books (1990), Edition: Reissue, 160 pages
Description
Tough times in rural Georgia during the Depression take a lively turn when spirited Ida Early arrives to keep house for the Suttons.
Subjects
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 1983)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee — 1983)
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Honor — Fiction — 1981)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — 1983)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 1983)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 1982)
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1983)
Buckeye Children's & Teen Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-8 — 1984)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — 1982-1983)
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (Nominee)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award (Nominee — 1984)
Original language
English
Original publication date
1980
Physical description
160 p.; 5.12 inches
User reviews
LibraryThing member allawishus
I loved this book when I was a kid; I rate it highly almost purely for the nostalgia factor. My teacher read it to us in 3rd or 4th grade, I think.
Ida Early is like a Mary Poppins of the Appalachian Trail; she can weild a lasso among many other feats of physical prowess and skill - the children
To be honest, the book seems so much more slight than when I first heard it. It's odd - the books that grab us as children.Maybe I built this one up in my mind through a nostalgic lense into a weighty tome of awesome adventure and/or my child mind made much more effective use of my imagination in order to be enraptured with Ida Early's world.
But it's still a good read.
Ida Early is like a Mary Poppins of the Appalachian Trail; she can weild a lasso among many other feats of physical prowess and skill - the children
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she's taking care of, the Sutton family, are in awe of her. When she's mocked by the local townspeople for her unladylike ways, the children don't defend her; Ida Early is offended and trys to become more ladylike. Soon the children realize they should have stood up for their awesome friend! All ends happily. To be honest, the book seems so much more slight than when I first heard it. It's odd - the books that grab us as children.Maybe I built this one up in my mind through a nostalgic lense into a weighty tome of awesome adventure and/or my child mind made much more effective use of my imagination in order to be enraptured with Ida Early's world.
But it's still a good read.
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Lexile
720L
Pages
160