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inkygirl's review against another edition
5.0
Fell in love with Cassie, the main character, and how she and her relationships developed through the story. If you enjoyed Katherine Paterson's THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS (one of my faves), you should definitely check out CONNECTING DOTS. But first read HOME FREE, which was a finalist for the TD Children's Literature Award and the Governor General's Award -- I only just discovered that CONNECTING DOTS is a companion book written after, am eager to read the first book.
ljrinaldi's review against another edition
4.0
This is the story of a girl, Cassandra, who is unwanted. She is the illegitimate child of a teenage mother, in the 1960s, and the shame of it, don't you know. Her grandmother takes her in, and loves her, until she is five, but once her grandmother dies, she is shuffled from relative to relative. No one cares for her longer than a year, and she goes through life knowing she will never be someone's.
We met her in the first book in this series, when Leanne wrote the story of her life, but we met her, but didn't get inside her head, or get to see where she was before. This books covers that, and more. It will make you cry, but in a good way.
It is not necessary to read Home Free first to get into this novel, but it certainly helps. This is not so much a sequel, but a parallel story, and this time written by Cassandra.
Highly recommend this as a good middle school book about intolerance in the 1960s, but also just as a good story. The publisher calls it the "Gutsy Girl" series.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
We met her in the first book in this series, when Leanne wrote the story of her life, but we met her, but didn't get inside her head, or get to see where she was before. This books covers that, and more. It will make you cry, but in a good way.
It is not necessary to read Home Free first to get into this novel, but it certainly helps. This is not so much a sequel, but a parallel story, and this time written by Cassandra.
Highly recommend this as a good middle school book about intolerance in the 1960s, but also just as a good story. The publisher calls it the "Gutsy Girl" series.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
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