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Tuesday: Weekly Book Review—”where i live” by Eileen Spinelli
This is the book I was telling you about that made me cry, if I am being honest cry a lot. The reason being, it took me back to when I was little dealing with moving 11 different times, the stress of making new friends, dealing with Dad’s job changes and feeling a wide scope of emotions.
Mad…sad…excited…hurt…lonely…nervous…confused…terrified…you get the picture 
It was an adventure!
The book where i live by Eileen Spinelli is book of poetry that a young girl asks to help herself get through her difficult experience. The main character, Diana has recently learned her father has lost his job and they will be moving in with their grandfather. She loves astronomy, poetry and her little sister Twink. For the first part of the book, Diana writes about how she loves her own home, her friends, and her way of life. The second part of the book deals with how Diana gets through moving and learns to love her new home.
Exert from the book:
Moving Day
I say my mad-sad good-byes.
Good-bye to my room
with the midnight blue walls
that look like night sky.
Good-bye to the yellow house
with the white shutters,
to the maple trees
and the daffodils
asleep in their beds.
Good-bye to Mrs. Clifford,
who stopped over
with a bag of
homemade cookies.
Good-bye to Rose,
who stand waving
as our car pulls off.
I watch her from the back window
until she is a tiny speck—
the hardest goodbye of all.
This is the PERFECT book for any child going through changes in their lives, I have already added it to my bookstore for you to buy!
Tags: book review, moving, poems
That’s beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
I know it made you sad, but I’m glad you moved! If you hadn’t, you wouldn’t have met me! And then where would I be?
What a sweet book. I never moved around, but my have, so I need to share this with them!!
Great article post. Thank you for being open and real about your experiences, your honesty shines through and makes your writing genuine.
I’m happy this book has re-connected you with the child inside of you. I think we all need to re-start the conversation with our inner-child and find out what they’ve been trying to tell us all along.
Thanks again!
Okay! I am disputing eleven moves!
You can’t count moves before you are two years old or moves that do not change your friends or school.
So, I count seven!