Never Miss a Sunset

I read this book when I was 13 and it was a particular connection for me because I grew up in the town where this story takes place and in fact knew the youngest child Roy. My grandfather played cards at the VFW every week with him. Another interest for me was that the author was also a cousin. But, more than this, the feelings are so real and run so deep it is impossible for a young girl to not understand and identify with the main character. I am here today because I am seriously considering using this book as a teaching lesson with a third grade class and will need multiple copies beyond my own.

I can't count the number of times I read this book. Even after it had been dropped in the bathtub, the binding broken and the pages were loose, I held it together with a rubber band and read it several more times. It was evetually lost in one of our many moves more than 20 years ago. I am thrilled to find out it's still available and will be reading it at least once before I pass it on to my daughter.

I read this book years ago and passed it along to my grandmother and great aunts. They were very touched by the book and said it beautifully depicted the era. They grew up in similar circumstances. If you have a grandmother who grew up in a small northern town on a farm with a large family buy this book for her.

I read this story in my late teens and again in my early twenties, approaching 30 now I'm about to purchase it again and then pass it on to my daughters. The author does a wonderful job of painting the ordinary life of this girl as a back drop to her extraordinary experiences and feelings.