Selling Hopeby Kristin O’Donnell Tubb
Release date: November 9, 2010
Genre: YA
Paperback: 224 pages
Rating: 4
Description from the amazon:
It’s May 1910, and Halley’s Comet is due to pass thru the Earth’s atmosphere. And thirteen-year-old Hope McDaniels and her father are due to pass through their hometown of Chicago with their ragtag vaudeville troupe.
Hope wants out of vaudeville, and longs for a “normal” life—or as normal as life can be without her mother, who died five years before.
Hope sees an opportunity: She invents “anti-comet” pills to sell to the working-class customers desperate for protection.
Soon, she’s joined by a fellow troupe member, young Buster Keaton, and the two of them start to make good money.
And just when Hope thinks she has all the answers, she has to decide:
Where is home?
My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): Coins
Such a charming book with its one-liners intermingled with life on and off the road with a vaudeville group. Of course, what really attracted me to this book are the colorful characters that you find in such a group.
Amusing one-liner:
Speaking of traveling light, did you hear the one about the boy who did just that? All he packed was kerosene and matches!
Win my ARC.
Open to all.
Offer ends: October 31, 2010
TO DO (2-parts):
1. Sign the guestbook (if you signed it already or in September - no need)
2. Visit the author, Kristin's, About page and tell me what makes her tick or ticks her off.
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* review ARC copy courtesy of Feiwel and Friends
* image source of Buster
