Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Because of Winn-Dixie
Book Review: Winn-Dixie a hit
Summary: 5 Stars
The order was processed quickly and I received it right on time. It was in great condition and an enjoyable shopping experience.Book Review: loved it
Summary: 3 Stars
when 10 year old indiana opolis is sent to the wind-dixie grociery store to pik up a couple items she finds her self running into an unexpeted dog in the produce ile the dog is ratty and making a mess and he is covered in tomatos the store manager wants some one to call the pound but the indana sais the dog is hers as indana opolis and win-dixie go on in the story they start to gain a conection like indana thinks she can kinda omminicate with win-dixie and as the story goes on indna opolis gets more and more curious about her mom. As she and wind-dixie go on they make new freinds and have to face new fears every day. towards the end will she find out who her mom is that you will have to find out for our self. when i was little it was hard for me to make freinds but when i did make a freind it opend up a lot more apportunities to make more freinds. i think that this is a good book for children like and under cause i think that this book to me is a little kidish but it still is a good book.
author:cate dicamillo
genre:fiction
theme: that even if your new you can still make freinds.
plot: she makes lots of freinds and she finds out what her mother is like
publisher:candlewick
Book Review: lyrical story of friendship, loneliness, and acceptance
Summary: 5 Stars
"I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. It was confusing."
Opal, a 10-year old preacher's daughter, is feeling lonelier than ever in Friendly Corners Trailer park in Naomi, Florida. They have moved there because of her dad's job, leaving all Opal's friends behind. But one day something interesting happens - Opal stumbles upon a big stray dog who wondered in Winn-Dixie supermarket. The girl decides to bring the mutt home and persuades her father to take in a "Less Fortunate" dog (she named him Winn-Dixie).
And it's because of Win-Dixie, Opal learns 10 things about her long-gone mother. Because of Winn-Dixie, she makes new friends and faces the sadness left by her mother's abandonment. She learns from one of her new friends that "there are ain't no way you can hold on to something that wants to go."
This lyrical story of friendship, loneliness, and acceptance will stay within reader's hearts long after they put the book aside. A must-read novel!
Julia Shpak
Author of "Power of Plentiful Wisdom". Available on Amazon.
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Book Review: review of because of winn dixie
Summary: 5 Stars
Review of Because of Winn-Dixie
Sometimes it takes a canine to show us what it really means to be human. Winn-Dixie is a stray dog who steals and heals the hearts of the south Florida townspeople in Kate DiCamillo's novel, Because of Winn-Dixie (Candlewick, 2000). India Opal Buloni, a ten-year-old "exception(al)" preacher's kid, narrates the moving, yet often hilarious, events with the wisdom of a sage and the spirit of a child. India is lonely--she is mother-less, friendless in a new town, and her father, "the preacher," is often "too distracted with sermons and prayers and suffering people to go grocery shopping," or to be the father that she needs.
When she adopts Winn-Dixie, the dog who smiles, India's life becomes fuller and more exciting than she ever imagined it could be. Winn-Dixie catches a mouse in church, leads his owner into a witch's yard, and lands her a job at a pet store run by an ex-criminal animal charmer and a parrot who screams "Gertrude!" But just when India's life has improved and her loneliness subsided, Winn-Dixie's pathological fear of thunderstorms leads him to run away! Will she find him? This beautiful novel will have you moved to tears by the end of the second chapter (and nearly every subsequent chapter) and just as in love with Winn-Dixie as the rest of the town!