Betsy Blossom Brown -

Kathleen M Jacobs

Little Creek Books

2019

168 páginas

5h 36m

ISBN-10: 1950895025

Betsy Blossom Brown is a coming-of-age story about a young girl who journeys from being an observer of life to a participant. Her seemingly idyllic life with her privileged South Carolina family is turned upside down, revealing truths and disarming pretensions. She's independent, opinionated, and brave. Uncertainty enters her life when she and her mother move to the Appalachian region until, through a series of unsettling events; she sheds her uncertainty and learns to embrace life. The graphite illustrations help to understand the depth of Betsy Blossom Brown, as she sketches her way through life recognizing her mild Asperger syndrome, without letting it curb her appetite for life.

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Betsy Blossom Brown is a coming of age book about this young girl with mild Asperger Syndrome.
Betsy and her mom, Lily, decides to travel to West Virginia after they find out that her dad is charged with embezzlement of clients funds from his firm.
After they both move, we get to see Betsy growing up and dealing with things she never imagined having to deal with before. The lost of her privileged life, her mom's new boyfriend, her first real best friend... Betsy gets a new perspective of life.
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"She's independent, opinionated, and brave. Uncertainty enters her life when she and her mother move to the Appalachian region until, through a series of unsettling events, she sheds her uncertainty and learns to embrace life. The graphite illustrations help to understand the depth of Betsy Blossom Brown, as she sketches her way through life recognizing her mild Asperger syndrome, without letting it curb her appetite for life."