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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
 Hope in the midst of poverty Jan 16, 2004
By William R. Burgett
"Bill Burgett"
Author Saunders has written a heart-warming account of a struggling family. He lifts motherhood to the highest level. The reader has to assume that the author has lived through some of his story; otherwise, he has a very real knowledge of life in the 50's in rural America. I look forward to reading his sequel. As an author (Project 314) I commend Saunders for his work. Tommytown holds your attention from cover to cover.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 great read Nov 23, 2004
By Bonnie Easterday
I found this book very enjoyable. I really felt that I was right there watching everything taking place. You could really feel the emotions and reality of the life of these children. Definitely a good read.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Loved it - you will too. Oct 23, 2002
If you want to read a tribute to Mothers, this is the book for you! Helen is a treasure!
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
The story was great! Barry and Noah horse back ride was the best. Apr 05, 2007
This book is about a family living in a small place called Tommytown. There are 4 brother and 3 sisters and the mother named Helen. The father is not in the story to much. I liked the 11 year old boy Barry and his brother Noah. They dream up all kinds of neat games to play like taking a ride on a real horse even though they have never been on a horse before. The horse throws them off, but Barry gets right back on again and guess what...yep he get throw off again. I laughed. They play cowboys and indians with there neighbor boys and lasso them while they are riding there bikes. There are a lot of other great things that the boys do. Their sister, Karen is always picking on them, but sisters always do that.
I thought the story was super and I read it all in 3 days!!!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
I'm 12 and this is a Great, great Story! Apr 09, 2007
This book is about a family that lives in Tommytown during the 1950s. The story is true and the brothers and sisters did actually live in this poor house. Barry is 11 years old and his brother Noah is 9. Barry has two sister, Karen and Maggie and they are older than he is. Barry's oldest brother, Bunky is 16. Bunky watches out for his younger brother and even when he got his first car, well it wasn't really a car but a van, he taught Barry how to drive. Barry didn't do very good in fact he ran it into a cornfield. I liked this part of the story where the brothers, made big letters in the cornfield by running over the stalks with the van. They got in trouble with their mother and they had to work two days for the farmer to pay for the damage they did to his cornfield. Barry, Bunky and Noah tried to tell their mother that they made the letters for her, but she wouldn't listen to them. Later she found out what the letters spelled and she was a little sorry that she didn't listen to them.
I won't tell you what they spelled in that cornfield because you have to read the story for yourself. To anyone who likes to read this is a great book and you just have to read it. You won't be sorry. Jason.
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