Whistling Past the Graveyard Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Susan Crandall
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
299

Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall Book Summary

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing road trip.

Whistling past the graveyard. That’s what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear...

In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother’s Mississippi home. Starla’s destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

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Book Name Whistling Past the Graveyard
Genre Historical Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 10.13 MB

Whistling Past the Graveyard (Susan Crandall) Book Reviews 2024

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Yes!. GREAT read. Gets you feeling all sorts of emotions. Its happy, sad, overwhelming.. All at once. Highly reccomend!!

Whistling Past the Graveyard. I love this book!!! I reread again after finishing it the first time. Heartwarming story of love and courage.

Filled with laughter and love. An exceptional book that captures the south and the spirit of its young main character. Highly recommend

Loved this book. Great read!

Loved it!. I loved the book! Starla Claudelle is the feistiest, sassiest, toughest character of all the books I’ve read. The story was sad, happy, and touching all at the same time. Congrats to Susan Crandall!

Not disappointed. I really enjoyed reading this book. Now this is the second book by Susan Crandall that I have picked up. The first one was The Myth of Perpetual Summer. I wasn't disappointed in both of books that I have picked up by this author. The way Susan writes is amazing you almost feel like you are watching a movie instead of reading a book. I never get bored reading her books. And fall in love or sad with characters. How Susan brings the characters to life is amazing. This book brings up things that happened in the 1960's. Racism and how real it was back then. And now in 2019 how it still effects people. About Book: This story takes place in 1963 in Mississippi. Our main character is a little named Starla who lives with her grandmother. Well her daddy works on the rigs and her momma lives in Nashville. Starla and her grandma really don't have a good relationship. Starla is always getting into trouble. Starla decides to runaway to be with her mother. When starting her trip she meets a older black woman name Eula. Who tells Starla she can help her get to her mother. That's when things start happening to these two. And Starla starts a kinda mother/daughter relationship with Eula. These two find themselves going to Nashville together. And never giving up and remaining close. I love how the author bought these two characters together. How they looked after each other no matter what happened. I highly recommend this book and any other of Susan Crandall books.

.. Loved this book! Starla is one of my new favorite characters!!

Whistling Past The Graveyards. Very seldom do I buy a book I can't put down. This is very well written and I loved it would highly recommend. I have now downloaded her book Back Roads. Susan Crandall is a terrific writer.

This book is a gem.... If I could give this book six stars I would. The 50s and 60s were an interesting time to be a child. Perfection was what everyone strived for and any family skeletons were hidden and not talked about. If you didn’t have a white picket fence you were harshly judged. I WAS Starla and to see my feelings put out there raw on the page was eye opening. It’s only looking back as an adult are you able to see why as a child why you reacted the way you did. Ms. Crandall did it right. The atmosphere, the attitudes, the prejudice, the fear....and trying to understand that as a nine year old child. Head on. Nailed it. I could not put this book down

Endearing. Smartly written through the eyes of a witty red-head girl, this book will make you cry, smile, and ponder things beyond America's history.

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Summary of Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall

The Whistling Past the Graveyard book written by Susan Crandall was published on 02 July 2013, Tuesday in the Historical Fiction category. A total of 299 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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