Name: Soupy Leaves Home (Second Edition)
ISBN: 9781506722054

Cecil Castellucci

In 1932 a teenage girl Pearl Plankette runs away from her abusive father, changes her identity to a boy named Soupy, and meets a hobo named Ramshackle who takes her under his wing as they hop trains, care for each other, and learn about themselves.

Soupy Leaves Home (Second Edition)

"When Pearl runs away from her abusive father, she has nowhere to go--until she stumbles upon a disguise that gives her the key to a new identity. Reborn as a boy named Soupy, she hitches her star to Ramshackle, a hobo who takes her under his wing. Ramshackle's kindness and protection go a long way toward helping Soupy heal from her difficult past. But he has his own demons to wrestle with, and he'll need Soupy just as much as she needs him. Two misfits with no place to call home take a train-hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their Eastern homes to the sunny promise of California in this Depression-era coming-of-age tale"--

Soupy Leaves Home

Sarah Sammis

As some reviews have criticized, Soupy's experience as a hobo as well as the hobo lifestyle is romanticized. I take the romanticism as a metaphorical setting for given a different setting would be a classic coming of age fantasy questing story. The hobo code and songs and signs here are used as a foundation for the book's magical realism, with the emphasis being on the realism wit the magical there to convey character growth.

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Soupy Leaves Home (Second Edition)

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