Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo - ESSENTIAL


Beverly, Right Here (Three Rancheros, #3) by Kate DiCamillo, 241 pages.  Candlewick Press, 2019.  $17.  

Content:  Language: G; Mature Content: PG; Violence: G.  

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – ESSENTIAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH  

14yo Beverly has her cousin drive her to the edge of a new town because she is running away from her dysfunctional mother.  Beverly quickly gets a job at a restaurant and befriends an elderly woman, Iola, in a trailer park who allows Beverly to live with her.  While Beverly tries to tell herself that she can’t trust anyone, she slowly starts to trust Iola, her co-workers and a boy who works at the local convenient store.  

Once again, DiCamillo writes an empathetic character who I couldn’t help but love.  Beverly is a strong, independent fourteen-year-old who is also kind and views the world with hope.  As for content, the book references Beverly’s drunk mother and the mother’s boyfriend chases Beverly.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson.    

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