3rd Grade Reading Group, Newport Oregon Elementary School

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	• Worth A. LaFaye Aladdin, 2006 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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3rd Grade Reading Group, Newport Oregon Elementary School

A compilation of various students:

I really liked the book. It is kind of sad in the beginning. I loved this book...it got sadder and sadder but it had a very good ending. The book is `actiony', funny and it makes you want to read it over and over. Worth is the most dramatic action filled, dark gory story I ever read. It lost my 5th star because it has blood and pain, there is a lot of drama. If you don't like blood don't read this. I like the Greek myth stuff. The only thing I didn't like was it didn't have enough Greek myth stuff. My favorite character was Anemone.

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Finding Worth

John Worth is an Orphan Train child, the sole survivor of the fire which killed his family. Nate Peale is a child of the prairie; his family struggles to homestead on the Nebraska plains. Neither boy has the ideal life; the question the book obviously asks is how will each find worth, value in the difficulties each has been handed. It is a deep study, this developing sense of worth, and the book handles it from the viewpoint of Nate, in a straightforward, no-nonsense, abrupt manner reflective of the rather harsh plains setting. I have met these people, having grown up in the High Plains myself, and the harsh view of life during the period is as real as the colorful country figures of speech. LaFaye creates country diction wonderfully and creates a great heroine in Mary Eve, Nate's mother, who at first refuses to love the orphan, John Worth out of a sense of loyalty to her own son and is, herself, an enterprising tinker. Gabriel, Nate's pa, struggles with his guilt over Nate's injury and faces down overwhelming odds to produce enough to keep his farm. One wishes that the issues of love, loyalty, women's roles were all explored more deeply rather than leaning on the fence-cutting dilemma and the long-lasting feud between ranchers and farmers to carry the story. But this is a children's book, and a good one. It is reminiscent of Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust which also reveals the endurance which High Plains life demands. For an outdoor drama featuring the rancher-farmer feud, see Texas, a play in Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo, Texas. The Peale's could be featured as strong farmers in that musical.

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Well Worth A Read

Difficult subjects makes for difficult reading. However, Worth's writer, A. LaFaye, has managed to handle the subject of the human need to be wanted, to be needed, to have--worth, with a masterful hand.

"Ma says you can hear the lightening in the tall grass before a storm. Haven't heard it myself, but she swears there's a crackling in the grass like tiny bolts of lightening traveling from blade to blade." So begins our story with a slight ominous preminition. Written in first person, our main character, Nathaniel James, talks to us with descriptions so rich and easy you feel you are right there in the middle of the action. And there is plenty of action!

Our author fearlessly takes on all the problems and stresses that Nathaniel's family has to deal with. Some outside their control: ranchers vs. farmers, how women are treated, city boy vs country boy biases and does so in a direct and honest way. But the story's true brilliance is it's handling of the relationships between father and son, husband and wife, son and new adopted son.

This is a short book but its power will last a long time.

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A Storm

The main character of the book Worth is named Nathaniel.
First, Nathaniel is a hard working boy especially when he brings the hay in to the barn. Second, he is boy that can take pain. A storm hit their farm and he was on a tractor thing and fell off and hurt his leg. Third, Nathaniel is one of those boys that are nice on the outside but sometimes mean on the inside. He doesn't like people that take away his dad. Fourth, Nathaniel is always helping his mom. He puts things that were broken back together that broke. Does that character relate to you?

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Before the accident Nathaniel's life seemed pretty good. His help around the farm made his father proud. But now, with a busted leg, Nathaniel can't do farmwork anymore, so his father adopts another son through the Orphan Train. Feeling replaced and useless, Nathaniel attends school for the first time. Meanwhile, sturdy and strong John is able to do the work that earns Pa's attention.

But the truth is, John Worth has his own set of troubles. He is treated more like a servant than a son. Kept awake at night by nightmares of his family's death, he remembers having a pa who took pride in him. But now he has no one, until a community battle and a special book reveal a potential friend -- and a chance for understanding.

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