Just Juice
By Karen Hesse
1998
First Published
3.70
Average Rating
138
Number of Pages
Juice Faulstich lives with her pa and ma and four sisters in the North Carolina hills. Working with her hands comes easy to Juice, but not school. This year, she's back again in Miss Hamble's third grade. Letters and numbers still don't make sense to her, even though she's the biggest kid in class.Juice skips school when she can, and spends the day with her pa. When he gets an official-looking letter, he asks Juice's little sister to read it—he says he needs new glasses and can't make out the words. It seems the bank will repossess their house if they don't pay their taxes—but how will they ever pay back so much money? And who is brave enough to tell Ma?Karen Hesse works her magic again in this satisfying family story about life-sized problems and everyday heroes.
Avg Rating
3.70
Number of Ratings
889
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
35%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Karen Hesse
Author · 28 books
Karen Hesse is an American author of children's literature and literature for young adults, often with historical settings. Her novel Out of the Dust was the winner of the 1998 Newbery Medal and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. In 2002, Hesse was a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship. For more information, please see http://us.macmillan.com/author/karenh...
