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Book Review of She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana

She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
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Helpful Score: 4


This was a great sequel to A Girl Named Zippy. It's interesting that in this book, as she grows up a bit, she figures things out about her family that she didn't know as a smaller child. But this book... this book is for her mother. For the woman that got up off of the couch and made a life for herself. I'll admit in the first book I had some not so nice thoughts about Zippy's mom... but she redeemed herself, pulled herself out of her depression and got on with her life. Kudos to mom for being so involved with the book and getting her life back on track. A beautifully told story - I hope there's another in the works - Zippy as a teenager - oh my!