Title: Because of Winn Dixie
Author: Kate DiCamillo
Summary: 10 year old Opal has just moved to Naomi, FL with her father who is the town preacher. She feels all alone and has no friends, and knows no one. On a small run to the local Winn-Dixie store for her father, she finds a stray dog running lose around the store. Opal claims him, and takes him home to live with them in their small and cramped mobile home, she decides to also name him Winn-Dixie. Winn-Dixie starts to get Opal thinking about her mother for some reason. Opal's mother left her when she was very young. Opal has always wondered who she is and what she was like. Opal makes her father tell her 10 things about her mother. Not only does Winn-Dixie help her learn more about her mother, he also helps her to make friends with various people throughout her town, such as a local librarian, a strange and nearly blind woman who has a dark past, and an ex-con who runs a local pet supplies store. For the rest of the summer, Opal learns more about her friends and her mother, and learns to open up towards new people, making her happy to live where she is living.
Rating: 5 stars!
Complaints: None.
Comments: If you read Moon Over Manifest (I have a rating for that on here too) then you will probably like this book as well, as it is sort of similar in a way. This is a true classic and I enjoy reading it over and over again. It brings something that the movie just couldn't really do for me. Does anyone else agree?
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