Hold My Hand and Run - Hardcover

McAllister, Margaret

3.8

50 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525463917 ISBN 13: 9780525463917

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile, 2000

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Kazy and her younger sister, Beth run away to escape the beatings of their cruel Aunt Latimer, and quickly learn the dangers of traveling alone in 17th century England and how to survive.

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About the Author:

In addition to her contributions to the Oxford Reading Tree series, Margaret McAllister has written several well-received novels for OUP.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 5-8-Abused and beaten by their villainous aunt, 13-year-old Kazy and her young half-sister Beth run away. Since the recent death of Beth's mother, Eliza, their father has been too distracted by his work and loss to notice how his sister mistreats his daughters. The desperate girls trod through the countryside of England in 1628, staying at a cottage, a parsonage, and eventually living with a madwoman whom Kazy agrees to care for in exchange for food and shelter. A fire forces them to leave, and they travel to Collywell Cross, "a healing place" of love and prayer where Eliza once worked. Kazy's conversations with the refuge's kind mistress about God and life's injustices are somewhat didactic, and some of the characters, especially the girls' aunt and father, tend to be one-dimensional. However, the informed descriptions of the 17th-century setting-including smells, clothing, and furnishings-are fascinating. Overall, this is a readable historical novel set in a period not frequently explored.
Debbie Stewart, Grand Rapids Public Library, MI
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