As Hot as It Was You Ought to Thank Me, (Paperback)

from RidgewayGirl

Nanci Kincaid has created a small, southern town set in the 1950's that is so wonderfully vivid that one inhabits the space with Berry, her dissolving family and colorful neighbors. From the death tests her brothers devise for the numerous snakes (snakes resonate throughout the setting and the no...

from allene68

It was a while back that I read this book but remember that the voice of Berry Jackson. She is a very spunky thirteen year old who trys to make sense of her life and sometimes trusts when she shouldnt and has faith in adults even when they dont deserve it. I have kept this one on my book shelf so...

from psherman

I enjoyed this first because it was such a great story and so well written. I also enjoyed it because I live near Pinetta and Madison and so it was like reading about home. I'm not sure about any quicksand near Pinetta, but she got the snakes right!