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When Dora Cookson, a young girl who has never been able to talk, receives an operation that allows her to speak, her trip with her family across the American wilderness becomes an extraordinary journey full of sound, in an inspiring story based on true historical events.
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Joy N. Hulme is the author of several children's picture books, including Bubble Trouble and Sea Squares. She and her husband, Mel, live in Monte Sereno, CA.
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A Mormon family emigrates from Salt Lake City, Utah, to a homesteading property in Clovis, N.Mex., in Hulme's (Sea Squares; Bubble Trouble) labored debut novel set in 1910. Nine-year-old narrator Dora Cookson cannot talk: "Every time I opened my lips to speak, the sounds were all mixed up and mushyAmore like grunts and groans than speaking." Her teacher shoos her away from school, and the others, including her imperious older sister, dismiss or tease Dora, interpreting her silence as stupidity. Only her brother Ed is kind to her, a relationship that Hulme develops convincingly and compellingly. However, at times the dialogue is contrived to deliver blocks of factual information (e.g., "[Mormon] was first used as an insult by enemies of the church . They claimed that we worship the man who compiled the Book Of Mormon instead of Jesus Christ," the father explains to the children). Just before the family departs for New Mexico, Dora visits a doctor because of a boil near her ear, and he discovers she can't talk. He diagnoses her as "tongue-tied" (meaning "her tongue is fastened down") and operates to free her tongue, and Dora embarks on a journey not only to a new home but also to find her voice. The Southwestern setting offers an exotic flavor, but the author fills in very few details about day-to-day life for the Cooksons. Readers may feel they know little more about Dora than when they started. Ages 8-12. (July)
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- PublisherAvon Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0380978709
- ISBN 13 9780380978700
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages162
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