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Her Father's Daughter (Readers Circle)

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
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As Maggie Morrison grows up she has her share of good times and bad times. As Maggie matures into a young lady of 13 years, she buys her first bra. She discover that a best friend can also be a boyfriend. Maggie's world isn't a gentle or stable one. She moves from place to place and see different faces all the time. The only constant thing in her life is her emerging sense in herself. I thought that the book was kind of funny. I enjoyed it but I did not like the ending. It kind of just ended and left me hanging. It doesn't seem like an ending at all. I had a feeling that there was more to the story but they lost the ending of it and only published that much.

When reading this story, you can feel the pain that life brings this girl and her family. A very touching novel.

I thought that this book was a great way of illustrating the way things were during this time period (1930s). It has a lot of funny but also serious stories to tell. I'd recommend it for anyone who likes to read, there is something there for everyone.

I am one of 3 granddaughters of Mollie Poupeney. We used to call her Mamie... anyways, this book is based on my grandma's life when she was growing up and I found it very interesting to read as i knew the characters themselves in real life. I miss her a lot and hope everyone else can bask in the sun while they read this novel. One reviewer said the endind may leave one hanging... that is because there is a second novel coming out in 2004! Hopefully all of you will look forward to reading it like myself. Her Father's Daughter is a wonderful book and i reccommend it not just to teenage girls like myself, but anyone who enjoys simple yet creative humor and writing.

Maggie Morrison was a little girl who had a hard life, as well as her mother. In the book, Maggie describes how her life was on into puberty, as well as the rest of her familys' issues. From her dad stumbling in drunk every night, to her mom smoking like a smokestack. It grasps the reader page by page because the sequence is in such an interesting order. There is no moral or motive for the story, although the book will keep you tuned in. This book would be best intended for teenage girls to read.

Maggie, the only daughter, of an alcoholic logging father and hard working mother is feisty and wanting to be near her dad. Very FUNNY and very poignant stories of the hard Depression times without roots, except the one's Maggie grew within!

This story is about a girl named Maggie Morrison who is always on the move. Maggie has two brothers, one older than her, and one younger. Her older brother, Frankie, hates to box or "be a man" as her father calls it. Maggie likes to box, so she is her father's favorite. When the war starts, and Frankie leaves to fight, Maggie thinks things couldn't get any worse. However, her father is always drunk, so eventually the family leaves to move many different places to try to avoid him, but he usually catches up with them again. Maggie still loves her father, but when her mom starts dating other men, Maggie is having problems. What with growing up, and constantly having to re-start her life, she is kind of a mess and is trying to find the happy-medium she can live in.

Mollie Poupeney is a really good author, and I really liked her style of writing here. She manages to, throughout to course of this short book, turn the seven year-old Maggie into a fifteen year-old adult, with so much experience in the world. It is such a difference, and it happens so gradually, that it is a really brilliant way of telling this story.

I enjoyed reading this book, because even though I don't like historical fiction that much, it was a good read. It was set in Oregon, so that gave me more of an understanding of the setting, and I could relate to the character a little bit, because she was a girl with siblings who was just trying to grow up. I recommend this book to any girl between the ages of nine and fourteen who likes books where you can relate to the character.

this was a great book. this was a story of a young girl and her alcoholic but loving father and strickt but loving mother and there messy divorce. it takes place in oregon around the great depression time, and it also goes through this girls struggle with puberty and awkwardness of addolessence. the abuse of her father, moms boss, and her uncle, and the finding that her best friend can be her boyfriend.this is a wonderful book the only reason i gave it four stars is because it had a utterly dissapointing ending. its ending was like the author lost interest or ran out of ideas and left it at that.but dont let the ending keep you from not reading the book it is still a great book.

Her Father's Daughter is a realistic, poignant account of a sensitive little girl growing up amidst conflict and adversity. Beautifully written and heart warming.