Beverly, Right Here (Three Rancheros, #3) by Kate DiCamillo,
241 pages. Candlewick Press, 2019. $17.
Content: Language: G; Mature Content: PG; Violence: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS – ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Fourteen year old Beverly has her cousin
drive her to the edge of a new town because she is running away from her dysfunctional
mother. Beverly quickly gets a job at a restaurant
and befriends an elderly woman, Iola, in a trailer park who allows Beverly to
live with her. While Beverly tries to
tell herself that she can’t trust anyone, she slowly starts to trust Iola, her co-workers
and a boy who works at the local convenient store.
Once again, DiCamillo writes an empathetic
character who I couldn’t help but love.
Beverly is a strong, independent fourteen-year-old who is also kind and
views the world with hope. As for content,
the book references Beverly’s drunk mother and the mother’s boyfriend chases Beverly.
Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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