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Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives in the god-forsaken town of Spearfish, South Dakota with her twelve-year-old brother, Fate, and Floy Satterfield, the 300-pound ex-girlfriend of her father. While Lutie shoplifts for kicks, Fate spends most of his time reading, watching weird TV shows and worrying about global warming and the endangerment of pandas. As if their life is not dismal enough, one day, while shopping in their local Wal-Mart, Floy keels over and the two motherless kids are suddenly faced with the choice of becoming wards of the state or hightailing it out of town in Floy's old Pontiac. Choosing the latter, they head off to Las Vegas in search of a father who has no known address, no phone number and, clearly, no interest in the kids he left behind.
MADE IN THE U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.
MADE IN THE U.S.A. is the alternately heartbreaking and life-affirming story of two gutsy children who must discover how cruel, unfair and frightening the world is before they come to a place they can finally call home.
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This was a very quick read and a good book. At some points it was very predictable, but at others it wasn't. It's marked as a young adult book, at least according to my library, but I don't think it should be. I would definitely recommend it if you're looking for a quick "in-between" book.
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I enjoyed this book very much. The characters acted as the would in real life, and their fears and feelings seemed to be right on the nose. The plot keeps moving quickly, and I don't think there was a boring part in the entire book. It is an easy read, as I finished it in a weekend. I won't return it to the library yet, as I suggested my 15 year old daughter read it first.
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Diane P. This book is about two gutsy kids, Lutie and Fate McFee's. Their father ran off to Las Vegas a year ago, leaving them behind with his 300 pound girlfriend Floy. We hear little about Floy because the first thing she does is drop dead in the checkout lane of Walmart in Yankton South Dakota.
The mother died several years before, fifteen yr old Lutie blames herself for her Mom's death and has a chip on her shoulder to prove it. Fate is a overly bright eleven yr old who worries.
Fifteen year old Lutie decides that they shouldn't wait around for social services to put them into foster care, so they take Floy's car and head off to Vegas to find their dad.
With little money and a whole lot of luck they make it Las Vegas.
Unable to find their dad, they try to survive. The things those kids go through while there will have the hair on the back of your head standing up!
I would be giving the plot away if I say anymore. I enjoyed the book, Billie Letts weaved a fine tale and proves that family is not always biological.
I am such a fan of Billie Letts! I want to fight for her charaters, I shout at them and try to guide them. Another great book by Billie!!!
Lynn M. (Nowhere near as good as the author's previous novels. The sister is such a self-centered brat. (I know, I know, she's just a teenager who's had a hard life; but c'mon! I just couldn't generate very much sympathy for her.) And the ending: I thought "Oh, great; now she's gonna be more self-centered than ever!
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