Collect Almost Home Portrayed By Joan Bauer Issued As Textbook

loved it! It was a pretty much perfect book, I started it and finished it in one night, The poetry was really good and I loved the characters!

Sugar Mae Cole was so awesome.
She was really nice to everyone even though she was homeless, her dad was an alcoholic, and her mom was having mental problems, she was so sweetand I don't usually use that word, but I feel like it is the only way to describe her to everyone she meets.
I loved the notes she wrote to people, It was kind of funny when she wrote notes to people she didn't like and signed off, Yours very truly, Sugar Mae Cole.


To me, her voice made her seem younger thanth grade, but she was very mature.
She had some really great quotes and I'm kind of sad I didn't write them down, I loved the theme of the book, which was about hope and new beginnings,

This book is so good, It's like one of those books you want to read forever, I hope she doesn't write a sequel because it ended perfectly and I think this book would be hard to follow up.


I'd recommend this for anyoneand up because adults can enjoy it too, Younger kids may not get the whole book as some of the themes are a little mature,

Ok, so this book is going down as one of my favorite books of all time.
It is just perfection! So go check it out and see what I mean! i read this when i was likei remember really liking it though : A solid.
stars! What a lovely, wholesome story of hope and home, For me, that was the most important theme in this book home is where the heart is, And, Sugar's heart the noun and the verb represent the soul of this story, Although Sugar is a fictional character, I happen to believe that children have an innate ability to see the best in people and situations and this was a shining example of that! I don't always enjoy reading my son's summer reading.
This time, I enjoyed AND learned the importance of holding onto hope, Oh. My. God. If there were ever a time NOT to judge a book by its cover, this would be it.
I stared at the painfully girly puppy on this book for weeks, dreading what I might find on its pages.
It turns out, Almost Home made me cry more than I care to admit, and my heart soared for Sugar Mae Cole, the deserving protagonist.
Bauer takes on homelessness and family dysfunction like no other, and I think anyone can see at least a little of themselves in one or two characters.
Reba, Sugar's mom, is hard not to forgive, but it wouldn't be a YA novel without at least one absentee parent, right Despite its disgustingly cute cover, Almost Home will be a book I will recommend to all of my readers.
Do you like to read heart warming Almost Home's If so this is a prefect book for you ,that will have you running for a box of tissues.
This is a realistic fiction and a heart warming story that will touch your heart,
spoiler alert
This story takes place in Missouri and Chicago and the reason why it takes place in two different setting is because sugar who is the main character first lived in Missouri in the beginning of the story then sugar became homeless and moved to Chicago to have a fresh start.
This story is about a young twelve year old girl named Sugar who is just like you and me living a normal life until conflict Sugar's whole life turns up side down sugar finds out that her grandfather is dead, and her gambling father is gone again.
Sugar and her mother lose their home in Missouri and set off to Chicago to have a fresh start, then they realize it is very hard to have a fresh start when you are homeless.
Sugar is not allowed to complain because her mother taught her better than that ,and to be grateful no matter what.
Later on in the story sugar has to take care for her mother because she could no longer take care of sugar and she has a breakdown because she can't afford to live in their home which is located in Missouri.
Later on in the story sugar finds support from a rescue dog named Susha and a foster family that took her in and her mother.
Also the support from her loving teacher and her poetry that she wrote all her thoughts in it and how being homeless changed her life.
The resolution of the story even though sugar keeps being positive no matter what she does the author Joan Bauer leaves us with the feeling that things will not be perfect for sugar in other words there was no resolution to sugars problem and being homeless.



In my opinion I feel very sad for sugar because she has so much on her plate being so young and having to take care of your mother ,losing your grandfather, having no father by your side, and still there being no resolution to this heartbreaking story.
I feel really sad for her if this was me I don't know what I would do I will probably lose my mind I just don't understand how sugar could handle it all at once and

not having one breakdown or throwing a fit sugar must have been a very strong and brave young girl to have to handle all of this at the age of twelve.
Me and Sugar are the same age and I am NOT even that mentally strong to be able to handle this if all of this was my conflict.



In my opinion I think that sugars mother should have been more stronger than that and should have not had a break down I know that it must have been hard for her to lose her house but a young girl shouldn't have to take care of her mother it should be the other way around.
I mean think about it to put all that pressure on one little girl I wonder what she must have been going through I mean her mother told her not to complain but having a breakdown is just like complaining and feeling sorry and not being grateful just as she told sugar to be grateful no matter what happened she is not even listening to her own tips but still I do feel sorry for her mother because being a mother must have been hard to say that she couldn't afford a house and couldn't care for your daughter it must have been really hard for her.


I would rate this book a five because it was really interesting to hear the story of sugar and her life being homeless it kind of puts me in her respective thinking about what if that was me also I would rate it a five because it had everything I was looking for it was very details and never bored me and I love to read heartwarming stories but the only thing I wish is that sugar could have got her house back I mean I don't like sad endings other than that I love the story and would recommend it to anyone who likes to read sad but interesting books I highly recommend almost home.
Even though this one has a dog on the cover, I knew I had to read it because it is Joan Bauer.
I trust Bauer. I do. I trust her books to be good if not great, Almost Home did not disappoint, It was a compelling read, an emotional one, For the heroine, Sugar Mae Cole, goes through some tough things, She's such a wonderful, lovable heroine, I loved the fact that writing was one of the ways she coped, loved to see her writing and sharing poetry, loved the fact that she was able to stay connected with her sixth grade teacher, Mr.
Bennett, during her struggles. Since her grandfather died loved reading her memories of him, things have not been easy for Sugar and her mom, they've been struggling with their finances for most of the year, and finally the worst happens: they lose their home.
Readers don't often get to see glimpses of homeless life, of life in and out of shelters, though sometimes readers get a glimpse of life for kids in foster homes, but we get to see a bit of both in this one.
For after one last big disappointment, Sugar does end up in foster care,

I thought the writing was amazing, I just loved it. And I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the characterization, This one is RICH in minor characters which is always a bonus, I would definitely recommend this one, even if you don't trust dog books, .