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Title: Strawberry Hill
Author: Mary Ann Hoberman
Narrator: Cassandra Morris
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-05-09
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
Mary Ann Hoberman has won the National Book Award for her sparkling poetry. Her debut novel,
Strawberry Hill, stars 10-year-old Allie, a young Jewish girl living with her family during the Great Depression. Everyone is excited because dad has found a home to rent and the street sounds like a place filled with fun and adventure - Strawberry Hill. But Allie soon finds many challenges in her new home and works hard to overcome them.
©2009 Mary Ann Hoberman (P)2009 Recorded Books, LLC
Members Reviews:
Lovely, gentle, old-fashioned
I disagree that anti-Semitism is the main conflict in this book. This book is about girl friendships -- anti-Semitism really only comes up as one of many conflicts.
I love this book for its complex characters who are written simply -- there are no caricatures here, and nothing manic. It's a sweet, gentle book that brought me back to my own childhood and to "simpler times". What a perfect book for a grandma to read to her granddaughter!
Five Stars
My 10 year old says this is her favorite book!
Wonderful book
I ordered this chapter book for my granddaughter who is 7 in First Grade and is reading at the fourth grade level. I recommend this book for first and second grade level readers. Great story and good moral.
Family favorite
Very nice, classic story. I enjoyed it, my daughter (9 yrs) adored it. She just read it again for the second time.
STRAWBERRY HILL feels very much like a first chapter book
Strawberry Hill in Stamford, Connecticut, turns out to be nothing like what 10-year-old Allie originally thought it would be. For starters, there are no strawberry plants as far as the eye can see dotting the suburban landscape. The Willie Wonka world she imagined her new home to be turns out to look an awful lot like any other one --- with some added features for which she is completely unprepared.
Anti-Semitism is the main conflict in Mary Ann Hoberman's STRAWBERRY HILL, and it brings together and breaks apart a number of fourth grade friendships. With an emphasis on the "can't we all just get along" genre, Allie's adventures in suburbanland are not without some serious pitfalls. Among them, of course, are rocky friendships --- the young Jewish girl across the street with whom Allie feels a great connection but who is shunned by prejudiced families in the area; the next-door playmate who seems to be caught between the innocence of their nine-year-old lives and the strange and strained considerations of the adults with whom she is surrounded; her little brother, so full of wonder and yet so astute about the relationships that are forming amongst the kids; the bookie dad who's been thrown in jail; and the hobo who wanders into their new yard looking for food and friendship. Conducting this orchestra of Depression-era confusion is Allie's mom, who stands up to racism and injustice and teaches all the children a lesson about compassion, true kindness and friendship.
Hoberman, an award-winning poet who is responsible for the You Read to Me books that help fledgling readers begin to read on their own, adopts a very simple and direct language, and keeps the racist undertones right at the top layer of the story so that everyone knows exactly what is going on. That kind of fierce and uncompromising look at racism and how it affects people so deeply makes STRAWBERRY HILL more than what it looks like it will be from the first easy chapters.
