The Lottery Rose
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| Author | Irene Hunt |
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| Publisher | Berkley, Tempo Books, Scribners, Berkley Publishing Group, Perma-Bound |
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| Media type | Audio CD (UNABRIDGED). Publisher: Recorded Books (1996) |
| ISBN | [[Special:BookSources/%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0A%2A+%5B%5BISBN-10%5D%5D%3D%5B%5B0425182797%5D%5D+%0A%2A+%5B%5BISBN-13%5D%5D%3D%5B%5B978-0425182796%5D%5D |
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The Lottery Rose is a novel by Irene Hunt, (A Winning Newbury Award Author).[citation needed] It was published in 1976. This book is sometimes recommended for middle school children and up. [citation needed]
Back of book
This is the story of Georgie Burgess and his life-changing experience. This 7 year old boy has been abused by his mother's boyfriend, Steve. Despite the misery, he wins a rose bush during a lottery at the local grocery store. His emotions run wild with the joy of his prized possession. Later that night, he came home to find Steve (the mother's boyfriend) in a foul state, his worst yet. He is sent to a school for boys. While he is there he meets many friends. This narrative eventually finds a boy learning how to trust others and learning how to love the people closest to him.
Summary
The Lottery Rose By Irene Hunt shows how a seven year old little boy named Georgie amazing life changing experience when you see how he changes physically, mentally, and emotionally. This story is when a child gets abused by their mother’s boyfriend. And how it is wrong to abuse other people and how it can affect them. In the book Georgie is ome of the many abused children. He gets abused by a man named Steve who happened to be Georgie’s mother’s boyfriend. Steve gives Georgie all kinds of wounds and the mother lost her child and Steve went to prison then Georgie won a rose bush at a grocery store and Georgie however ended up in an all boy school. In the book it states clearly on how he changes physically, mentally, and emotionally. His life will never be the same.
Let’s see how Georgie changes physically. With his mother he was beaten severely by Steve he gave Georgie all kinds of wounds. However at the all boys’ school he is safe from any harm the nun Sister Mary Angela keep him well take and care of and as happy as can be that he is away from Steve. With his mother Rennie he had very poor hygiene. However with the other nuns he is clean as ever with very well kept hygiene and very clean clothes. Otherwise his wounds affect and where’s him down. But he never has to worry about Steve again.
Georgie physically let’s see how he changes mentally. Georgie changes mentally on how he thinks about himself for example at school he was marked retarded because he never liked his teacher Miss. Cressman so he never paid attention to her but at the all boy school he was tutor by Mr. Collier he caught on and no longer was called retarded, he knew how to read and many other things. Georgie had much hatred for Miss. Cressmen. Miss. Cressmen was a cruel teacher to Georgie. However with tutor Mr. Collier he liked him because he was kind and understanding. And Georgie was kind and he paid much attention. At first he didn’t know a single word and didn’t know how to read when he was with Miss. Cressmen. On the other side with his tutor Mr. Collier he knew understanding and complicated words.
Georgie changed emotionally in many different ways such as when he had no friends with his mother Rennie Burgess, he had no friends because he was called retarded. On the other hand at the all boys’ school he made many friends. And before with Rennie nobody cared about his rose bush now at the all boys’ school everybody cares about his rosebush. When Steve gave Georgie all those wounds ever since then he was scared to tell anyone about what he did until he told his friend named Timothy. Timothy is another boy at the all boy school who understands Georgie. Georgie meets a young boy named Robin who cannot speak, except for a few words that Paul (his so called brother) and Georgie encourage him.