| Rubber Houses | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 10 reviews)
Sales Rank: 426018
Category: Book
Author: Ellen Yeomans
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Studio: Little, Brown Young Readers
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
Label: Little, Brown Young Readers
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 031610647X
EAN: 9780316106474
ASIN: 031610647X
Publication Date: January 3, 2007
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 Simple and Beautiful April 3, 2007
While written in verse, this book is a novel and reads like one. The story is told simply and beautifully. The verse is natural and emotion flows through it without being overdone. It is of course a "must read" for anyone who has lost a family member or equally for anyone on a painful journey of their own. A beautiful and moving work from start to finish.
 A wonderful poignant book February 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a book that will stick with you long after you've read it. I recommend it both for the emotional journey and for the sparse beauty of the poetry. To say it's a tear jerker is true, but somehow that fails to capture the way the story brings events to life and makes you feel as if you're a part of them. It's a powerful read. People of almost any age will find plenty of heart in these pages.
Review of Rubber Houses February 6, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A beautifully told story of one family's tragic loss and how to go on living. Yeomans' work is poignant and real. A must-read.
Courtesy of Teens Read Too February 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
RUBBER HOUSES is a moving free-verse novel about Kit's experiences loving her younger brother, losing him to cancer, and moving on but never forgetting.
Kit and Buddy, despite their age gap, are very close, and Kit is devastated when he becomes sick and she finally, but not unexpectedly, loses her younger brother. She shuts down for awhile after Buddy's death, but slowly, she starts to pick up the pieces of her life and continue to live it, even without Buddy by her side, even with the pain of loss that, even when it's not fresh, is never gone.
This is an emotional, well-written novel about love, loss, and moving on despite it all. Kit is a realistic, well-developed character, but often she is the only one; the other characters seem less than real much of the time. Despite this, RUBBER HOUSES is worth reading. Whether readers can relate to Kit's situation or not, all will feel her pain at losing her brother in this painfully honest story.
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
Look Inside the Houses January 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Father, mother, sister, brother. A happy family - until the youngest, the boy, is diagnosed with cancer. Told in verse from the teenage daughter's point of view, Rubber Houses is a tearjerker of a story, written simply and shared gently.
Even though Kit is eight years older than Buddy, the two are as thick as thieves. My sister and I are eleven years apart, but we were incredibly close growing up. I am the younger of the two, so reading this story made me consider how it must have been to be in her shoes, dealing with the drama of high school while your sibling was barely in elementary school.
If you like Rubber Houses, I also recommend Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick and With You and Without You by Ann M. Martin.
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