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Title: West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883 (Dear America) by Jim Murphy ISBN: 0-590-73888-7 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great!
Comment: In the spring of 1883, fourteen-year-old Teresa Viscardi and her large Italian-American family leave their home in New York City and head west to Idaho to participate in a new community called Opportunity. However Teresa hates the ides. She wants to return to New York City, where everything is familiar and orderly. Instead, she's on a crowded train, and then on a covered wagon caravan, with her annoying family. She most despises her younger sister Netta for always reading her diary. But when tragedy strikes, Teresa realizes how much her family means to her. Since at that time her father was away because of a gold strike Teresa may be the only one who can save her big family from all parishing. This was another great book and full of details on the hardships of the journey west and the hopes of one young girl!
Rating: 5
Summary: A girl and her family head west in 1883.
Comment: In the spring of 1883, fourteen-year-old Teresa Viscardi and her large Italian-American family, which includes her, her younger brother and sister, her parents, her aunt, uncle, cousin, and grandmother, leave their home in New York City and decide to head west to Idaho to participate in the founding of a utopian community. The community is to be called Opportunity, but Teresa isn't of the feeling that the west is filled with opportunity. She wants to return to New York City, where her friends and home are. Instead, she's stuck, first on a crowded train, and then on a covered wagon caravan, with her annoying family, of which her grandmother and sister are the most annoying. Nanna is stubbornly traditional, and pesky Netta reads Teresa's private diary. But when tragedy strikes, Teresa realizes how much her family means to her, and she may be the only one who can save them from disaster. I highly reccomend this excellant addition to the Dear America series. It's a great read if you like historical fiction, stories about pioneer life, or the other books in the series.
Rating: 1
Summary: Terrible, terrible book.
Comment: This is, without a doubt, the worst dear america ever! The protagonaist complains WAY to much. The author also never explains who people are. Your left to guess there relationship with teresa. Usually you can get a halfway decenat idea of whjo the heck they are, but often your left with no clue. I gusee this is suppose to make the book feel more realesitc and diary like, but it jsut gets irritating. Now, you'd think this piece of garbage couldn't get any worse. How wrong you are! The author, it seems, had the brigh idea to kill off the ONLY interesting charecter. (I'm not goining to identify who, though actually mabye I should give it away just to prvent people from tourtering themselves with this book.) Aparently this is supposed to add to the "drama" Actally, it just seems to make the book boringer then this book already is. The president of the United States could be attacked by a herd of raging bunny rabbits and this book stil wouln't be any more interesting. Why couldn't the author kill off Teresa? Belive me, the world would be a much better place without her. Or, better yet, the author could maybe kill off the 20,000 charecrers he never
identifies. Maybe then we might actually learn who they are! Now grantend, I never actually finished this book. I've tried many times, but I just end up getting frustrated and giving up in discut. I usually end up watching Barney or somthing. You know, a show with plot. Maybe at the end somthing interesing happens (though actally the only good thing that can happen to this book is Teresa falling off a stgecoach and dying or somthing.) To put it lightly, this book SUCKS. I don't mean to critcze the people who read this book and enjoyed, but sonmthing must be wrong if you liked it. I mean,I'm sure your very nice normal people in real life, but you must have really bad judgemnt in books. And the editor who let this be published must as well.
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