Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo
2019; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 73; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.2019.0563
ISSN1558-6766
Autores ResumoReviewed by: Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo Deborah Stevenson, Editor DiCamillo, Kate Beverly, Right Here. Candlewick, 2019 [256p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-7636-9464-7 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-5362-1098-9 $16.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 4-7 We’ve had Raymie Nightingale (BCCB 4/16) and Louisiana’s Way Home (BCCB 10/18), and now it’s time for readers to see what happens to the third member of the 1979 Floridian friendship trio. Beverly, a tough-minded, sometimes even sullen fourteen-year-old, decides that after her dog dies her alcoholic and selfish mother isn’t enough to stay for and opts to leave home. She ends up in a small coastal town, finds herself an under-the-table job at a dysfunctional restaurant, and gets taken in by a lonely old lady. As she gets to know her new acquaintances, including a kind local boy, she must decide what they really mean to her and whether she’s brave enough to care for them. As with the other titles, this is a real-world fairy tale about a lost girl finding home; Beverly’s prickly personality and DiCamillo’s smooth understated prose keep the sentimentality at bay here, though, and add some edge to the wishful details of Beverly’s experience. Beverly’s gradual thawing [End Page 15] into a belief in her own value is deftly depicted, and the story will inspire yearning in many readers for a similar escape and soft landing. Copyright © 2019 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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