Dovey Coe

Title: Dovey Coe

Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell

Reviewer: Megan D.

Summary: 12-year old tomboy, Dovey, doesn't like 17-year old, Parnell Caraway because he claims that Dovey has done a terrible thing. She knows in her heart that she didnt do anything bad. Parnell wants to marry Dovey's sister Caroline. Dovey does not want Caroline to marry Parnell because she thinks that everything will go wrong. Dovey talks to her mom and dad about it, but they think that Caroline should marry Parnell, and start her own life after she is finished with school. Caroline doesn't know what to do with her life. She wants to be a teacher, but Parnell already has enough money to take care of her and himself. Dovey hates Parnell so much that her town is saying that she is aiming to try to kill him. Will Dovey try to break up Parnell and Caroline and figure out why her town is saying that she is going to kill Parnell?

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