Letitia's Home in the Valley
Book Description
Tylers Grove, Virginia, 1887. Nine-year-old Letitia (Tisha) is the middle daughter, sandwiched between thirteen-year-old Victoria (Vicky) and baby Virginia (Ginny). Mama is expecting a new baby. Tisha's growing list of chores will include helping tend to the newborn. She longs to learn how to read and write, and Mama cleverly works out a plan to teach her to do so. The new baby girl takes ten...
MoreTylers Grove, Virginia, 1887. Nine-year-old Letitia (Tisha) is the middle daughter, sandwiched between thirteen-year-old Victoria (Vicky) and baby Virginia (Ginny). Mama is expecting a new baby. Tisha's growing list of chores will include helping tend to the newborn. She longs to learn how to read and write, and Mama cleverly works out a plan to teach her to do so. The new baby girl takes tending, and little Ginny must learn to yield her position as the youngest, but Mama is an intelligent woman and never favors one child at the emotional expense of the others. For teenager Vicky, schooling is important. While Mama teaches Tisha at home, she makes sure that Vicky continues to go to school.
Through Tisha's eyes the reader sees daily family events unfolding, the country landscape filled with beauty and little adventures, an old-fashioned country Christmas, Papa starting a barrel-making business with a Black man as his partner, a wedding between older people of color and Travelin' Dan ... agent of change. For Tisha, Travelin' Dan's horse bells mean excitement, news from places far away and strange things to see and touch. Sometimes new things are a little scary. Now Travelin' Dan was going to sell Papa's barrels and the family would have to make an adjustment to something new. But that would be fine, because there always had been love and trust in the family unit.
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