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Title: Clover by Dori Sanders ISBN: 0-449-90624-8 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A unique coming of age story.
Comment: Drawing from childhood experiences of growing up in Filbert (York County), Sanders wove a unique coming-of-age story. As Sander's story begins, 10 year-old Clover, a strong willed Southern African American girl, is facing a crisis. Her widower father, Gaten, is about to re-marry, this time to his college sweetheart, a white woman named Sara Kate.
Clover isn't the only one upset, her aunt Everleen isn't too thrilled about the union either. But, Clover and her family face and even bigger crisis several hours after the wedding when word comes that Gaten and Sara Kate have been in a car crash. Everleen is convinced that Gaten's new wife will divide both the family and its land.
This book is not wholly about race. It's about the whole family. Not only does Clover have to adjust to the sudden changes in her life, but so do the other members of her family. I liked it because it's a story you can read with your children. It is a heart warming story and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Rating: 4
Summary: A Modern Problem-A Traditional Solution
Comment: Dori Sanders delivers to her readers a compelling story about change, toleration, and true undying love, told through the eyes of a ten year old. Clover, a gifted, talented, and witty young girl experiences a loss like no other when her father is suddenly killed in an accident, which leaves Clover under the supervision of his new wife. To add to the madness and frustration, Clover faces another challenge, her stepmother. Clover is black, while her stepmother, Sara-Kate is white. It seems that the color of their skin is not the only thing they do not share in common. Thus, the journey begins for young Clover. Through this journey, she will learn to accept her newly found stepmother, and her stepmother too will learn to accept her. Learning to deal with differences whatever they may be, is a reoccurring theme in this story, and througout the book, Dori Sanders manages to capture these differences between the two with a great deal of humor. Although this book is very humorous at times, there are other points and places that will prick even the hardest of hearts causing a tear to fall here and there. Clover is a book that touches the heart, soul, and mind, and is definitely a book for all ages. It presents problems that everyone at some point in their lives has or will face. This story presents problems of childhood, change, death, and differences, while producing a positive remedy, which is love and understanding.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice story
Comment: Clover is the ten year old main characther, in this story of learning to deal with new things. When clover's father is killed in an accident, she expects to move in with her aunt and uncle, but instead her new stepmom, who is white plans to keep and raise her. Clover has to get use to a lot of new things, like eating different kinds of food, and just getting used to living with a stranger. I throught the book was good, and give reader's a look at two people from totally different ways of life learning to understand one another.
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Title: Her Own Place: A Novel by Dori Sanders ISBN: 0449908755 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand by Dori Sanders, John Willoughby ISBN: 1565121171 Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman ISBN: 0060975466 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in the Postmodern Age by Judith Stacey ISBN: 0807004332 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler ISBN: 0449911594 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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