The truth about sparrows

I really enjoyed this book. An easy read for a stormy winter day. I started reading it in a classroom I was substitute teaching in. Had to order it on Kindle so that I could finish it.

I got this book at the dollar store, for, you guessed it, $1. I liked it so it was a dollar well spent.

As a girl who moved multiple times during her growing up years, I could understand Sadie's angst about leaving her home, best friend, and having to start somewhere new. Her struggle with her angry feelings and her desire to be a good person also resonated with me.

The author did a good job of describing Sadie's feelings as she transitioned from one type of life to another. I would recommend this teen fiction book to both adults and teens.

I enjoyed the interview with the author at the end of the book. When asked what she (the author) wished she could do better, she responded: "Everything! But being imperfect is not such a bad thing. I like to think we're all like jigsaw puzzles with pieces missing here and there. The lessons we learn, the people we meet and come to love, simply fill in the missing pieces and help complete the picture of who we are."

I think this perfectly describes what happened to Sadie in "The Truth About Sparrows".

The Great Depression causes a family to leave their Missouri home and find work elsewhere. Their travels end near Rockport, Texas. For the first time, Sadie sees her disabled father through the eyes of strangers. She learns how to pick cotton, peel shrimp, collect pecans, survive a hurricane, and deliver a baby. Most importantly, she learns about the power of friendship and forgiveness.

Timely book about the Great Depression. Also made me think about what I reflect to others.

Such a beautiful story! It warmed my heart.

A lovely YA fiction story about a young girl during the depression dealing with the upheavals of family and community and the emotional turmoil such upheavals cause in her.

I just liked this book. Heartwarming, thoughtful, a bit melancholy, and real. I could see myself in Sadie - more than once her reactions or feelings in certain situations, her questions, her doubts and fears seemed all too familiar. I was so glad she had her family and friends to help her realize her potential and goodness.

Loved this book about a young girl and her family forced to move to Texas to find work. The hardships they had to endure, and the new friendships that were built helped her to deal with the loss of a lifetime friend.

A Depression-era story is not my usual read, but it just hooked me, and left me touched at the end. From a writer's perspective, however, I thought there were a few too many similes that didn't fit smoothly enough.

An absolutely lovely story about a family during the depression struggling to thrive. The heart of the story is a young girl who learned more about being a kind soul during the book than most people do in a lifetime.

I liked this book because it was during the depression but (to me) it wastn't depressing. After I was done reading it I missed the families and their everyday happenings. It was like Little House on the Prairie in Texas during the depression.

The Truth About Sparrows is a book written by Marian Hale about how a daughter of a farmer, Sadie Wynn, moves to Texas after being a farmer in Missouri because of the droughts and the dust storms that are ruining their crops so they move to Texas to get a better job and a better life. Throughout the book, Sadie complains about moving and leaving her best friend behind, Wilma, and always wants to leave as she says, her family doesn't belong hear in Texas. She then meets the red head Dollie, who is a girl that will never stop talking, but she will lead Sadie to understand and appreciate the things that they have going through the Great Depression towards the end of the book. In my opinion, the book really wasn't that great as it didn't really give you the feel that the characters were really going through the Great Depression and that is what the book is about, a child trying to survive through a depression and be okay in the end. The book didn't give the feel of them going through the Great Depression because at one point when all the families are in the school while a storm is going on, during a conversation that some adults are having the say that so many people in other places fight over food and so many people are homeless and that most people are living terrible lives, meanwhile almost every single person in the town has a home except for the one old man, Mr. Sparrow who was given that name by Sadie as she tries to figure out his story, and no one is starving so the book doesn't give off the feel that they are going through a depression but just Sadie trying to adapting to this new rough environment that she doesn't like. Overall, though, the main plot of Sadie's new life is very compelling, interesting, and full of twists that make the book be more edge-of-your-seat worthy, but the book didn't give enough information about the setting being in the Great Depression.