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Holding Up the Earth
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Holding Up the Earth Hardcover - 2000

by Gray, Dianne E

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  • Title Holding Up the Earth
  • Author Gray, Dianne E
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition TRUE
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-08-28
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UI56006M9N_ns
  • ISBN 9780618007035 / 0618007032
  • Weight 0.87 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.72 x 0.86 in (21.59 x 14.53 x 2.18 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 880
  • Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Diaries
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99052637
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

It has been eight years since Hope’s mom died in a car accident. Eight years of shuffling from foster home to foster home. Eight years of trying to hold on to the memories that tether her to her mother. Now Sarah, Hope’s newest foster mom, has taken her from Minneapolis to spend the summer on the Nebraska farm where Sarah grew up. Hope is set adrift, anchored only by her ever-present and memory-heavy backpack. Accustomed to the clamor of city life, Hope is at first unsettled by the silence that descends over the farm each night. But listening deeply, she begins to hear the quiet: the crickets’ chirp, the windsong, the steady in and out of her own breath. Soon the silence is replaced by voices, like echoes sounding across time — the voices of girls who inhabited the old farmhouse before her. Reluctantly, Hope begins to stretch down roots in the earth and accept this new family as her own.

Media reviews

"The stories of five teenaged girls — separated by decades, but joined by their love of a Nebraska farm — are pieced together like a patchwork quilt in this first novel. . . . A carefully structured work full of recurring connections and patterns, peopled with strong female characters." —Horn Book (9–10/00) Horn Book

"An excellent candidate for mother/daughter reading groups, Holding Up the Earth will become a collective memory for young teenage girls." —Kirkus Reviews (10/1/00) Kirkus Reviews

School Library Journal (10/00) School Library Journal

The Bulletin (11/00) The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

"This highly recommended book can be read on many leavels — historical, psychological, structural, or artistic. Each level is fascinating and fulfilling." —VOYA 4Q 3P (10/00) VOYA (Voice of Youth Advocates)

"...powerful female protagonists...the concerns that connect them...make for gripping reading." -The Paperback Shelf Midwest Book Review