"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. 8-12) - Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. This story of an adolescent girl coming to learn of her mysterious Amish side found acceptance and. As the world of Tyler's family opens to her, the writing is consistently graceful the unfolding story will enthrall readers. Family Tree Katherine Ayres, Rosalma Zubizarreta When a sixth grader has to research her family history, she discovers her reticent widower father's Amish background and the sacrifices he made to. At least, she had no success until 1996s Family Tree. Tyler learns of her father's culture mostly by reading her mother's compassionate books and journals about the Amish she also glimpses the romance that brought her father and mother together. In sure, deft strokes, each character emerges: Tyler's tough, wise teacher her good-hearted, tormented father her protective friend, Casey and Tyler herself. As each discovery leads to another, Tyler is torn between sympathy for her father's pain, and anger at being cut off from the rest of her family. When Tyler, who lives alone with her widowed father, is assigned to make a family tree, discoveries abound: Her father, Jakob Stoudt, was raised Amish, and shunned for marrying an ``English'' woman, Sarah Tyler Sarah's father rejected Jakob as ``different.'' When Sarah, pregnant, died in a car crash and the baby was born prematurely, Jakob let the Tylers believe the child was dead, too, fearing they would take her. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.A poignant first novel about a girl's discovery of her father's Amish upbringing and her own family's past. As the world of Tyler's family opens to her, the writing is consistently graceful the unfolding story will enthrall readers.
A poignant first novel about a girl's discovery of her father's Amish upbringing and her own family's past.
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