On the Banks of the Bayou [Turtleback]

Roger Lea MacBride (Author), Dan Andreasen (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Turtleback
• Publisher: Demco Media (January 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606156607
• ISBN-13: 978-0606156608
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got a Lot from this Book, March 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: On the Banks of the Bayou (Little House) (Paperback)

This is definitely one of my fave books(i'm 14). I think I first read this book when I was 9 or 10, but I wasn't mature enough to really get all of it yet. Rose is definitly growing up, separating from her mother, making good and bad friends, falling in love, taking big risks and thinking about her future. Frankly she is dying to ditch her boring, ordinary life in her small Ozarks town, but she also has to decide what she is going to do about Paul, her first love, who is gone most of the time. Basically it is a coming-of-age story set in small-town turn-of-the-century America. I liked it especially for the historical value, and would recommend it to anyone who liked the Laura books, or likes historical fiction for young adults. ...

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An historical story as fresh as today, January 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: On the Banks of the Bayou (Little House) (Paperback)

This story has it all: Little House history, portraits of racism, women's rights, the labor movement, and a young woman preparing herself to strike out on her own. The time is different, a century ago, but the themes are as fresh as today. Rose awakens to the world around her, to the cruelty of the treatment of African Americans and begins to question authority in thoughtful and sometimes clever ways. She lives away from home with her Aunt Eliza in Louisiana going to high school, and ends this experience with new self-confidence. A decent portrait of Cajun family life as well. I would recommend this book to adults as well as young adults and wouldn't be surprised to see it on television or in the movies one day.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Rose book, July 27, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: On the Banks of the Bayou (Little House) (Paperback)

ON THE BANKS OF THE BAYOU is a delight. It is the best of all the Rose books. Rose goes to a Louisiana academy, taking up her aunt's offer. She stays with her aunt, and slowly realizies that she is for womens' rights. She crusades with her aunt to help boost voting for women, and along the way she learns Latin and learns about Lousiana with a new Cajun friend, Odette, and her huge family. It is fun and inspirational, but Rose also learns the horrible truth of slavery and segregation in full. When she eats at an ice-cream parlor under cooling fans, she watches a black girl pay at a special window and sit on a dingy chair in the blazing sun. Rose learns more than Latin, Algebra, and geography. She learns what it is to live in the world.