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23 reviews
Michael Dorris

Hyperion Book CH, 1999

Morning Girl
Morning girl by Michael Dorris Morning Girl is a small story about a little girl and a little about her brother,and what her family and their and there culture are like. The book switches from brother to sister every chapter. It is sad and it is cool to read about what they did when they saw some new things. Also it is interesting to see how she felt compared with ...

Cloud Chamber: A Novel

20 reviews
Michael Dorris

Scribner, 1998

Prelude and Postlude
`Cloud Chamber' is the follow-up novel to his earlier `A Yellow Raft on Blue Water'. To say follow-up, however, is somewhat misleading. It is actually both a prequel and a sequel to that novel. Whereas in YRBW we are presented with the history of three generations of women in a backwards progression, in `Cloud Chamber' we begin several generations prior, leading one to speculate (even unto the ...

Broken Cord

15 reviews
Michael Dorris

Harper Perennial, 1990

People Who Work With Kids Need to Read This
This memoir/ public health history is engaging, disturbing and educational. It touched on many things to which I can relate...having a degree in anthropology (as the author does), being a former social worker and currently in school to become Special Ed. teacher I want to give this book to everyone I know who doesn't live in my world and see these things happening around them and to those who do ...

Sees Behind Trees

52 reviews
Michael Dorris

Hyperion Book CH, 1999

An outstanding children's book
Let me just quickly preface my review by saying that there are 11 kids reviews here which were all written on the same day. Looks like a teacher might have used the book as assigned reading, then had the kids write reviews. That's unfortunate; students who are not readers tend to be critical of the books they are assigned. I love this book, and I'd give it my highest recommendation to ...

Window, The

12 reviews
Michael Dorris, Ken Robbins

Hyperion, 1997

The Window
I loved the book. I thought that it is a very good book for teenagers to read and especially foster kids because that is what it deals with.

Guests

16 reviews
Michael Dorris

Hyperion Book CH, 1999

Guests: A book reveiw
Bray Ferguson May 27, 2003 Community 7-213 Guests Guests by Michael Dorris, was intriguing and suspenseful. As the authors explains the beautiful woodlands in the Northeast, he revisits his childhood by explaining to the reader that he, himself grew-up in an Indian tribe and fell in love, as did the boy, Moss. He finds a girl and usually is scarred to talk to girls, but no, not this time, he ...

The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

3 reviews
Michael Dorris

Harpercollins, 1989

Facts, plus much more
The Broken Cord" is the heart-wrenching story of a young man, single and in graduate school, who adopts a developmentally disabled boy who, like himself, has Native American ancestry. The man learns gradually that his son suffers from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, just as the medical community is starting to figure out what Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is. As a child psychologist, I have found the ...

The Crown of Columbus

11 reviews
Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris

Harper Perennial, 1999

Best book I have read in 10 years
I loved the Crown of Columbus. Everything from the richness of the language and characterization to the intricate plot development. A quintessential love story, Vivien Twostar leaps off the pages: one can identify with her struggles - both as an individual and also in a relationship. While the feckless Roger Williams adrift in his sea of academic and masculine arrogance is a wonderful ...

Yellow Raft in Blue Water

141 reviews
Michael Dorris

Novel Units, 1999

Exceptionally well written and memorable
Three women connected as mothers and daughters but each with tremendous burdens to bear and pass along. Although the stories are not beautiful, the writing in this book is exceptionally beautiful -- simple, direct, vivid, and tender. The author definitely knows how to bring the reader into the shoes of the characters. At times as I was reading, I could simply forget where I was and was ...

Paper Trail: Essays

2 reviews
Michael Dorris

Harper Perennial, 1995

Discover a wonderful writer through these essays, as I did.
I want to tell you that heaven is richer by one wonderful communicator. I have devoured everything Louise Erdrich ever wrote and always wondered what kind of wonderful husband supported that writer. I treated myself to Paper Trail to celebrate getting through grad school midterms. The book is a baum to the soul of anyone who cares about relationships between people, children, the ...

Grieving: A Love Story/Large Print (G.K. Hall Large Print Inspirational Collection)

1 review
Ruth Coughlin, Michael Dorris

MacMillan Publishing Company., 1994

Reality. Life and Death
This is without doubt the most outstanding work on the subject of losing a spouse or lover. The rality and compelling writing make it a must read for anyone, whether they have suffered a loss or not.

Working Men: Stories

5 reviews
Michael Dorris

Picador, 2003

A gem: each facet a sparkling short story.
Ever since I read Dorris' Yellow Raft in Blue Water I have wanted to read more of his magical prose. And finally I have. I carefully meted out a quota of one story a day to make the experience last its longest. And, I look forward to rereading this collection again and again when I need to quench one of those reading dry spells that settles in now and again

The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading

1 review

Milkweed Editions, 1997

writers = readers of books
Most adults who are avid readers suffered the same condition as a child. Here are reminiscences of contemporary writers revealing their introductions to a life-long preoccupation with the magic and mystery of words and reading. Many common elements emerge: being read to at a very young age, fascination with the ideas and lives of other people, a special person (friend or family) who passes ...

Tainos/Morning Girl (Infantil)
Michael Dorris

Alfaguara Ediciones, S.A. (Spain), 1996

Ramona (Signet Classics)

21 reviews
Helen Hunt Jackson

Signet Classics, 2002

"Now the Hacienda's Dark, the Town is Sleeping"
It has been a long time since I first read this book, but the subject matter will be around for a long time to come. Bewitching love story for which at least one beautiful song has been written, "Ramona" and possibly "Vaya Con Dios". It is a love story, one whose emotion most of us will recognize; another time, another place, from our own Spring Time; woven skillfully into cultural ...

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