Blue, Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Blue, Joyce Moyer Hostetter
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Blue

Author: Joyce Moyer Hostetter

Narrator: Kate Forbes

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/27/2022


Synopsis

When thirteen-year-old Ann Fay Honeycutt’s father goes off to fight Hitler, he hands her a pair of blue overalls to become “man of the house.” Her feelings are mixed: “Wearing britches so I could take the place of my daddy wasn’t the same
as wearing them so I could climb trees.” Ann Fay fights her resentment at losing the life she’d known just as she fights to keep the weeds and the blue wisteria from overtaking the family vegetable garden. But when a polio outbreak changes
everything again, remarkable Ann Fay needs all of her guts and resolve to face the unpredictable future.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amanda on March 02, 2015

Such a moving and inspiring story that is so close to home and "real history" from our area.......more

Goodreads review by Mollie on February 24, 2019

Genre: Historical Fiction Grade level- 4th-6th Blue is a historical fiction novel written about a young girl, Ann Fay Honeycutt, during the time of World War II in the United States. Ann Fay is given a pair of overalls and the job of "man of the house" when her father goes to fight in the war. She is......more

Goodreads review by Joy on November 30, 2011

INCREDIBLE!! I already knew from watching the book trailer and talking to a friend who had read it that I would enjoy this book; but I was not prepared for just how much I would fall in love with Ann Fay Honeycutt, Junior Bledsoe, Imogene Wilfong and Joyce Moyer Hostetter's captivating writing style.......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on April 30, 2023

This was a really good story. Very poignant, it made me cry. I had no idea about the 1940s polio epidemic in Hickory. I enjoyed learning more about our state's history.......more

Goodreads review by Wendy on November 25, 2012

My favorite of Hostetter's works. It will have you laughing and crying and you'll learn a lot in the process!......more