This is a sweet story. I loved the main character.

I thought it was beautifully written and the characters were well-developed. I didn't give it a higher rating because I still really don't get the title (there was only one little passage about sparrows and then an occasional mention of a man Sadie calls Mr. Sparrow, from whom she learns some lessons, so maybe that's where it comes from?). Also there was a couple of instances where the syntax didn't fit with the rest of the writing. Most of the time the speech style was normal and then once in a while the author would change the way the characters spoke, perhaps in an effort to imitate the way people who lived in that part of the country during that time might have spoken. It was fine, but I prefer consistency.

2.5 ⭐. I don't know, it was nice. Very vanilla. A family moves from Missouri to the coast in search of a new life during the Great Depression. I found myself just wishing it was over faster.

I thought this was a great story. Simple, sweet and with a happy ending. It is the story of 12-year-old Sadie whose family packs up and moves to Texas in 1933 when they can no longer make a living in Missouri. I thought it was a fun piece of historical fiction written for upper elementary grades.

I loved this book. It was one of those beautifully written stories that makes you feel happy even when it is breaking your heart. It made me feel young again, in the way that the main character always feels too many emotions and with a limited range of life experience has no way of knowing how to deal with them. (Can you tell I like coming of age stories?)

It is the author's first novel, and I wish I could tell her that it was a job well done.

it's really good so far, I'm on chapter 8!

It thought this book was good, but it started out a little started a little slow. Plus it took me a while to get in to it. I think it was a little longer than it needed to be, but over all it was a pretty good book.

I thought the prose was really nice. I loved the descriptions of the landscape, their new home and everything they had to do to make it home. The setting is very unique and living near the ocean my whole life, I found it strange to experience someone smelling the salt air and eating shrimp for the first time. The author really excelled at the details of Depression era life in that area. The plot took awhile to be interesting but 3/4 of the way through, I couldn't put it down.

Sadie is very real. She's flawed which makes her more relateable. She's not a plucky too precocious young girl. She has honest, realistic feelings that kids actually experience. I know I would feel the same way in her place, yet as an adult, I found her unlikeable. Her refusal to accept her new friend and their situation annoyed me. I wanted to give her a good talking to.

I loved the secondary characters. The disabled Daddy made the story more interesting. I liked his grit and determination. The lively neighbors are the best part of the story. I liked the descriptions of them though I felt they were just too nice.

The Truth About Sparrows by Marian Hale was a wonderful read to take a look at the depression through the eyes of a child. The book takes place in the year of 1933 right in the heart of the Great Depression, and twevle year old Sadie doesnt want to leave her old life in Missouri but times are tough and Sadie and her family, including her pregnant mother, disabled father, and many siblings, decide to move down south to Texas to build a boat and become fishers. Sadie meets new people and new places like Aransas Pass and Dollie but her stubborness doesnt let her see what she has. Will Sadie grow into her new home or continue to miss her old one? The story is a first point perspective which in my opinion makes it more interesting. The story taught me many vauble life lessons like being thankful for what you have and that who are inside always shines through. Overall this book was an excellent story and I very much enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone who loves at heartwarming story about friednds, family and life.

I liked this book. It wasn't the best book i've ever read, but its interesting. It starts out kind of slow. but it gets good. its about a girl and her family who have to move to Texas because they have to sell their farm. the story tells the family hard-shipes and hwo they get through them. in the end she realizes she is happy where she is and wants to stay there.

Wonderful !! Hard subject the depression. But enlightening!! Families survived . In this story the father is a hero keeping his family fed a roof over there heads. Without his wife who bears the children feeds them all on very little and Mr Sparrow who the daughter worries about , his family where have they gone and why is he alone living in a box by the sea wall. And why do people star at her father who has no use of his legs and pulls himself everywhere. But can build anything and drives there old car. A must read!!!

So this book is about a girl named Sadie who had to move to Texas because of the Dust Bowl, and she is NOT happy. She had to leave her BBFL, and her house and school....etc. It's an ok book, I had to read it last year for Social Studies and it was ok.