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Young Adult · 2019 · PG

Beverly, Right Here

by Kate DiCamillo

Fourteen, grieving a dog, and gone — Beverly gets a job bussing tables and a life of her own choosing.

Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly. Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still. This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. To stay away. Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it’s not running away. It’s leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about

For10+GenreYoung AdultLength242 pagesRead time~5 hours

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Violence

Some

Recalled bullying and a mother's boyfriend chasing a child hard enough to chip her tooth

Language

Some

Occasional "crap" and "piss off" — mild but present, unlike the earlier books in the trilogy

Sexual Content

Barely any

Budding attraction and hand-holding between fourteen-year-old Beverly and a sixteen-year-old boy; a grown man's unwanted contact is treated as a violation

Substance Use

A lot

Maternal alcoholism is the reason Beverly runs, and adult characters smoke throughout

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Grief for a dead dog standing in for larger loss, a runaway minor living unsupervised, an alcoholic parent, and adults who prove unexpectedly trustworthy after many who weren't

What this book is about

The oldest-skewing of the Three Rancheros trilogy, rated 10+ by Common Sense Media but with noticeably more content: bullying "physically and otherwise," a teen attempting to rob a restaurant, a chipped tooth from a mother's boyfriend chasing her over a stolen wallet, and a customer making unwanted physical contact. Language includes occasional "crap" and "piss off." Beverly leaves because "her mom is drunk again," and many adults smoke. There is hand-holding with a sixteen-year-old boy.

Notes for sensitive readers

Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.

A runaway fourteen-year-old living unsupervised

Maternal alcoholism

An adult customer's unwanted physical contact

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