Backwater (r/i) |  | Author: Joan Bauer
Publisher: Speak
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Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 602013
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 192
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0142404349
EAN: 9780142404348
ASIN: 0142404349
Publication Date: June 2, 2005
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There are two things you can count on in a book by Joan Bauer. One, it will make you laugh. And two, the girl who is telling the story will be really good at something, but not something you'd expect. In Squashed, Ellie wins the Giant Pumpkin Weigh-In. In Rules of the Road, which won the Golden Kite Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Fiction, Jenna Boller is a whiz at selling shoes. In Backwater, Ivy Breedlove resists being good at the family tradition. For many generations the Breedloves have been successful lawyers. Among her loud and argumentative relatives, however, Ivy feels like "a goldfish swimming in a tank stocked with snapping turtles--it's hard to keep a lasting presence." Instead, Ivy is in love with history, especially the family history she is compiling. But a large piece is missing. Many years ago, her father's sister Josephine went away to be a hermit in the mountains, and ever since, the rest of the family has referred to her scornfully as "stuck in the backwater." Ivy, convinced that this "different" aunt holds the secret to her own differentness, sets out in a snowstorm to find Jo, with the help of backslapping, slogan-spouting wilderness guide Mountain Mama. Along the way she meets with a lot more adventure and understanding than she ever anticipated--not to mention snagging an excellent boyfriend. (Ages 12 to 16) --Patty Campbell
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Ivy Breedlove's family is driving her crazy. Generations of Breedloves have been prominent lawyers and her relatives expect her to follow suit. "We'll make her a lawyer yet!" they pronounce at a family reunion. Well, not if Ivy has her say. But how do you have your say when the voices surrounding you are so loud? Ivy's passion for the past provides an answer. As she works on completing a history of her illustrious family, she discovers other Breedlove women who broke the mold, including her father's sister Josephine. No one will talk about the reclusive Aunt Jo, so when Ivy hires a wilderness guide to find her, her family is less than thrilled. Armed with her thirst for knowledge, Ivy undertakes a dramatic journey up an icy mountain and into the backwater to try to find someone, perhaps, like herself.
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Black Sheep May 31, 2007
A. Luciano (Lowell, MA United States)
Ivy's entire huge extended family seems to be made up of loud lawyers. Her father and her uncle and, it seems, everyone else of any importance in the Breedlove clan, are lawyers. Ivy often feels out of place; she doesn't want to be a lawyer. She doesn't like to shout or argue, and she certainly doesn't feel like going to law school, despite the brochures her father keeps leaving around in her room.
Ivy wants to be a historian. She is very interested in most types of history and enjoys especially knowing where she came from. Her great aunt started researching their family history years ago, but then she rapidly began losing her eyesight. She turned the project over to Ivy. Now with her great aunt's eightieth birthday celebration approaching, Ivy is eager to get the project done and to prove to her aunt Fiona that having a written book is just as important, and maybe even more important, than the video Fiona is putting together.
But there is a crucial part of the Breedlove family history that is missing--Ivy's aunt Josephine. No one in the family has seen her or had any communication with her for years. She had always been sort of strange, according to Ivy's father, and as an adult she went way up into the mountains near their family home to live by herself. Now it has become important for Ivy to find her and talk to her. So she hires a wilderness guide to lead her through the wintery trails to her aunt's place on the mountain.
This story was similar to Bauer's other stories, but each of her tales has a unique twist and very strong and likable characters. The narrator was talented and thoughtful, and Josephine was always true to herself. The rest of the Breedlove family, although loud and aggressive, were still a pretty close-knit group. This was a good story about the pressure faced by the black sheep of a family.
 Backwater March 23, 2007
Backwater, by Joan Bauer was a good book. This book was about a young teenager, Ivy Breedlove, who was trying to find out about her family history. She wanted to be different from her family of lawyers, and when her family found out, they said she was like her Aunt Joesphine. Joesphine is a character who didnt care about what anyone thought of her, she also did not want to become a lawyer, and she ended up living in the mountains all alone, in her cabin with the birds.
Backwater March 23, 2007
This book is really good. I like this book because its about real life things and its about a girl going to see her Aunt that has went up to the mountain to get away from her problems. Her Aunt ends up making her own little town called Backwater. Her Aunt is mayor Backwater whitch is a town with birds all around it there is a bird house and a bird hospital in the town. But the end is really good. The end is a tree falls on the house that her aunt lives in, and breaks her Aunts leg so Ivy has to put her Aunt on a sled,and bring her the ranger house for her Aunt while shes going over a frozen pond.Read it its really good!
Backwater March 23, 2007
I like this book because i like adventure things. I like to search for new things. I would love to meet my family members that i have never seen or heard about. I always strive for what i want, kinda like Ivy did to find her aunt. I can relate to Ivy. If i ever found one of my aunts in the woods i would ask/want her to come back home to stay with the family. I personaly love the outdoors. I like to hear the birds cherping and all the natural sounds. I like birds, kinda like her aunt Josephine.
Backwater March 23, 2007
This is a good book for kids that like a adventure and excitement. Evy has to find is long lost aunt before her grandmas birthday. Now she has help and wants to write a report on her family';s history. Her family is a long line of lawyers, but Evy doesn't want to be a lawer sh wants to be a social worker like her mother was. She wants to help people. So if you want to find out if her anut is dead or alive I would suggest reading this book. This was a really good book! It is well written and it has a lot of details and you will enjoy this book.
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