FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Rose moves to Louisiana to live with her aunt Eliza Jane to finish high school, she is exposed to new cultures, politics, and ways of life.
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Roger Lea MacBride, a close friend of Rose Wilder Lane's, was the author of the Rose Years novels.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Got a Lot from this Book,
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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. ...
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An historical story as fresh as today,
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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:
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My favorite Rose book,
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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.
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Rose gripped the edge of her chair seat to steady herself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Stover, Miss Wilder, Social Democrats, Mardi Gras, Baton Rouge, Parkerson Avenue, Sheriff Sloane, Eliza Jane, Paul Cooley, Bayou Plaquemine, Grandfather Wilder, Grandmother Wilder, Jim Crow, Social Democratic Party, Mary Holt, Richard Schultz New!
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Rose gripped the edge of her chair seat to steady herself. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Professor Stover, Miss Wilder, Social Democrats, Mardi Gras, Baton Rouge, Parkerson Avenue, Sheriff Sloane, Eliza Jane, Paul Cooley, Bayou Plaquemine, Grandfather Wilder, Grandmother Wilder, Jim Crow, Social Democratic Party, Mary Holt, Richard Schultz New!
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