Rhode Island Children's Book Award     Student Comments
Dovey Coe
by
Frances O'Roark Dowell
Grades 5-6

Dovey Coe is a young girl who lives in an ordinary family. But then a boy named Parnel asks to marry her older sister, and one thing leads to another and Parnel gets killed and Dovey gets the blame. Did she kill him or did she not?

Frohman
5th Grade
The Gordon School

P.S. I rate this book a five star book.

Dovey Coe is about Dovey and a mean boy named Parnel Carway.  If you like criminal mystery, you will like Dovey Coe.  It will leave you clueless and hungry for more.  Exciting, as well as right to the point, to who killed Parnel.

Marcel
5th Grade
The Gordon School

I loved the book Dovey Coe! Its a GREAT novel about a girl whose sister gets proposed to by an awful rich man known as Parnell Caraway. Dovey’s hatred for Parnell is well known, so when Parnell is murdered, Dovey automatically becomes the prime suspect. Join Dovey in a breath-taking journey to prove her innocence. The suspense is unbearable. You cant put it down!

Allison,   5th grade
The Gordon School
 

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