![]() Louisiana is malnourished from living in poverty and has "swampy lungs". All three are entering the contest and need a skill, except Beverly's mom made her enter the contest even though she didn't want to, which makes Beverly one angry swan, hissing and lashing out at everyone around her and determined to "sabotage" the contest. ![]() Raymie meets Louisiana and Beverly at baton-twirling lessons. To enter the contest, Raymie needs a talent as well as perform good deeds which leads her on some crazy adventures with her two friends, Louisiana and Beverly. Her understanding is always just out of reach and with each adventure she has with her new friends she steps closer to self-understanding. ![]() Her inner monologue is innocent and shows a young person that doesn't quite have life's experiences nor the vocabulary to express how she feels. He is such a "skunk," he even left without saying goodbye. Her plan is to win and once her dad sees her picture in the paper, he will miss her and come home to her and her mother. She is going to enter the Little Miss Central Florida Tire contest because her dad has just run off with a dental hygienist. Ten-year-old Raymie Nightingale has a plan. This story is full of hope, healing, and sadness. With each other and find happiness in their new friendship. Raymie searches for it and finds that she is stronger than she thinks and that she can rescue others and herself, even if her prince (aka dad) isn't coming home in this fairy tale. Better yet, they have to find the light or reason for their existence within themselves. Florence Nightingale walked the battlefields with a lantern looking for the wounded during the Crimean war the children in DiCamillo's story need a light in the darkness as well, to heal their wounds suffered from abandonment. Of the nursing profession, and the book protagonist, Raymie Clarke, decides to read to old people in a nursing home. These characters need a Florence Nightingale in their life, founder This is more fairy tale than anything else with its terse chapters and familiar tropes, but it is also a mixture of historical fiction and adventure a story that shows how the female characters (both young and old) suffer and are wounded from loss, poverty, abuse, and abandonment in everyday life. Here is a tale where each reader will take away different meanings from themes, symbols, and motifs. Kate DiCamillo's crafting of stories is brilliant and this one will not disappoint fans. This is my first pick of a Newbery contender book for 2017. ![]()
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