Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Louisiana's Way Home by Kate DiCamillo - ESSENTIAL


Louisiana’s Way Home (Three Rancheros, #2) by Kate DiCamillo, 227 pages.  Candlewick Press, 2018.  $17.  

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

BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – ESSENTIAL  

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH  

Louisiana’s grandmother, Granny, wakes Louisiana up in the middle of the night and makes her get in the car.  Granny drives through the night, but when Granny’s tooth pain becomes too much, Louisiana must drive even though she has no experience and she is only ten years old.  Eventually Louisiana stops in a small town and locates a dentist, who removes Granny’s teeth.  Louisiana and Granny must find a way to let the local motel allow them to stay even though they don’t have much money.  Louisiana meets new people and learns things about herself that she didn’t want to know.  

I love the three friends, Raymie, Beverly and Louisiana from the novel Raymie Nightingale, so I was excited to read Louisiana’s story.  The story line tugged at my heart because Louisiana is such a lovable personality and her life isn’t easy.  In usual DiCamillo fashion, strangers help Louisiana and she works through her heartbreak.  You can read this book out of order or not read the others in the series and the story will make sense, but the characters are so endearing it is worth reading them in order.  

Reviewer, C. Peterson. 

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