Shawn Stout
Author of Penelope Crumb
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Shawn K. Stout received an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is the author of A Tiny Piece of Sky, the Not-So-Ordinary Girl series, and the Penelope Crumb series. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Works
- 17
- Members
- 363
- Popularity
- #66,173
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 68
- Languages
- 2
Frankie gets involved in trying to defend her father, assist the young black man, Seaweed, who works in the kitchen but is an aspiring musician, get herself out of working in the kitchen, solve a few family mysteries, and a number of other often funny entanglements. Stout's writing style is reminiscent of T.R. Pearson's in "A Short History of a Small Place" and I often found myself laughing at the way a story was told as much as the story itself.
At the end of the book, all the loose ends are neatly tied up, with no dangling threads. Great story telling. A story about prejudice (both American prejudice against those of German descent and the white prejudice against blacks) which somehow keeps that focus without ever getting too depressing.… (more)