Milam McGraw Propst

Ociee Nash is moving to Memphis, Tennessee! This charming book about the honest and adventurous young girl growing up at the turn of the century. In Memphis she will be reunited with her older brother, meet new family, make new friends, and develop her conscience as she reaches out to the forgotten in her new community. Brash and forthright, Ociee faces all her problems head on with courage and kindness.

It's not really my cup of tea but I can imagine a younger version of me being more interested. Not a page turner, but a comforting, familiar, and predictable read for a eight or nine year old.… (meer)

I, too, received this as an e-book, and -- like others here -- am a little tardy in offering a review. The format offered by the publisher wasn't really conducive to reading online, and it took a while to find that the 'calibre' application could convert it to an epub format that could be read on a portable device. Like one of the other reviewers mentioned, I couldn't imagine reading the third book in a series without reading the first two, and that wasn't going to happen on a computer screen or a ream of printed 8 1/2 by 11 paper.

So I did read all three books in the Ociee Nash trilogy. I am understandably not the target audience (middle-aged male), but I enjoyed the stories. Out of the three, the first was the author's best work. The latter works suffered a bit from too many abrupt story line changes without much resolution to the conflicts generated by the story line changes. The prose is a little hard to read at times, which is the only thing stopping me from offering the books to my 8-year-old daughter. She is a ferocious reader, but I'm not sure she has the breadth of reading experience to follow the quick voice changes and the multitude of characters that come and go and then come back again.

If you are just starting out on the Ociee Nash series, I definitely recommend starting with the first book. There are plenty of unresolved plot lines for other books, so if the notion that you might not reach a satisfying conclusion at the end of the third book leaves you anxious, you might not want to pick up the series.… (meer)

I received this book via Early Reviewers as an e-book. So I am very grateful and a little slow in reviewing

In truth I couldnt finish this book. I found the story quaint and whimsical - not really up my alley. I have offered the book to my wife who is a fan of tv shows like Anne of Green Gables so I expect she may enjoy the story more than I did.

I would recommend this book to kids & adults who enjoy classic books like:
Anne of Green Gables
Huck Finn / Tom Sawyer

Thanks to the author/publisher for the review copy… (meer)