Almost Home
By: Joan Bauer
Summary
Sugar Mae Cole is an ordinary kid who doesn't have much besides her loving relationship with her mom. Sugar is given a dog that is named Shush and they become great friends, through the hard times. Sugars mom loses their house and they end up living with their cousin. After a few weeks their cousins kick them out and they have to go to a homeless shelter. Reba (Sugar's mom) and Sugar head to Chicago to try and start a new life but Sugar finds out that her mom has no where to go. Reba gets sick so she goes to the hospital and Sugar ends up in a foster home, where she soon meets someone that changes her life for the better.
Joan Bauer
Bauer is the author of; Close to Famous, Hope Was Here, Pealed, etc. She writes about teens who face a struggle in life.
Main Characters
Sugar Mae Cole
Sugar has to take on the role of the mother when her mom becomes homeless and loses all her faith an becomes ill.
Reba is brave, confident, and trustworthy.
Reba Cole
Reba is going through the struggle of her life when she loses her home and becomes homeless.
Reba is cheerful, sensitive, and hard-working.
Mr. Benett
Mr. B is Sugars old teacher who emails her throughout her journey and encourages Sugar about her poetry. Mr. B helps Sugar when she doesn't believe in herself.
Mr. B is encouraging, honest, and extremely thoughtful.
Precept
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." ~Fredrick Douglass~
Quote: ALMOST HOME By: Sugar Mae Cole
Home isn't always a place you picture in your mind with furniture and cookies and music playing and people laughing.
Home is something you can carry around like a dream and let it grow in your heat until you're ready for it.
Losing things helps you appreciate when you lose things and finding things gives you hope that when you lose things it might not be forever.
Once, long ago, a girl lost her home, but she didn't lose her dream.
She hung on to it as the wind kept trying to blow it away,
but that made it stronger.
So now she has keys and walls of many colors and people around her who think she's something.
Pg. 257-258
Favorite Quote
"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."
By: Robert Tew
Theme:
"This is a story about struggle."
Rachel Platten: Fight Song [Lyric Video]