Listen for Rachel [Paperback]

Lou Kassem (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1996

Feeling lonely and unhappy in her Tennessee mountain home with her grandparents, orphaned Rachel feels out of place among the mountain people who believe that, at fifteen, she should prepare herself for marriage. Reprint. AB. PW. K.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this absorbing historical romance, Rachel, 15, experiences conflicting emotions as she moves toward adulthood amidst the strife of the Civil War. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 7-9 Two months after her parents die in a fire, Rachel Sutton joins her grandparents and other kin she has never known. Set during the Civil War, this story of Tennessee mountain life takes Rachel from beginning adolescence to love and a marriage proposal. She learns the skills of Granny Sharp, the mountain medicine woman, and takes over the doctoring after Granny's death. Unfortunately, Kassem's story line is weakened by too many underdeveloped subplots. The midwife theme is brought in late in the novel and is not fully developed; a troublesome cousin is conveniently married off; and Rachel's love interest, a Yankee soldier, miraculously reappears at the end of the story. Too many dangling strings keep this from being a successful book. Therese Bigelow, Hampton Public Library, Va.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Flare (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380712318
• ISBN-13: 978-0380712311
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,950,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, May 11, 1999

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"lizzizoa" (Somewhere in Hell) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Listen for Rachel (Hardcover)

This is the best book i've ever read! it's just wonderful! A perfect combination of every thing... Witchcraft, love, romance, mountain life, everything good!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Book, January 28, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Listen for Rachel (Hardcover)

I read this book in the junior high years, and from then on checked it out at least once a year from the library. Now that I am much older I am glad to find the book through amazon to purchase for my future children as a collector's item. It is the best book I have ever read, and can read it over and over again even now. I recommend it for any female that loves to read a great story of with (rated G) romance. The character loses all she has, and is place into a home of strangers. With so many obstacles against her she gains strength, a career, and romance.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Book For Anyone!, April 12, 2000

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a unhappy reader (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Listen for Rachel (Hardcover)

When Rachel's parents die in a fire, she is sent to live in the mountains with her family. She struggles to fit in, she meets old Granny Sharp. Granny Sharp teaches her medicine and doctoring skills to help the mountain folk. With the Civil War flaring, her grandfather makes his farm take no side. Not North. Not South. The reason for his action is that part of the their family is fighting for the North and part for the South. Rachel is working on the farm tending to wounded soldiers from both sides when a young military captain by the name of Ben is found hurt outside the farmhouse. Rachel cares for him and they soon fall in love. Rachel can't marry him because she has important duties at home, and it's a mountain tradition to follow the man to his home after marriage. She can't go to Pennsylvania with him because everyone tells her she is needed where she is as a doctor. I am upset that the publisher stop printing this book. I do not have a copy but got it out from a local library. Although I would like to buy a paper back because it is much cheaper I would also buy it in hardcover if that was the only format. If you enjoyed this book, you will also like Time Enough for Drums which will be out in paper back in May.