Beverly, Right Here is the third book in the “Three Rancheros” trio by Kate DiCamillo. Each book is about a different girl in the trio: Raymie Clark (Raymie Nightengale), Louisiana Elefante (Louisiana’s Way Home), and now Beverly Tapinski. I feel that they could be read as standalone books, but I don’t know why you wouldn’t read all of them after you experience the magic of any one of the three!

When Beverly Tapinski’s dog (Buddy) dies, she decides it’s time to leave, not run away- she’s done that plenty of times before. She finds herself in Tamaray Beach walking down the side of the A1A. In Tamaray, she finds a job at a fish restaurant even though she hates fish and a place to stay with Iola Jenkins at the Seaside Court RV Community. Beverly meets so many interesting people in her new little world and finally discovers who she is.

I should have really started this by saying that Kate DiCamillo has been and will always be my favorite author. I couldn’t contain myself when I received notification that I was approved to read this ARC! As always, I was transported to a world that I wish I could just pack up and move in to. The characters (even the unlikable ones) are amazing. This could have been a quick read for me, but I found myself taking my time to get through the book just so I could enjoy it more. I look forward to reading it again and again in the future!

*Thank you to Netgalley and Candlewick Press for the ARC of this book. This was a voluntary review.*

Thank you NetGalley for this advanced reader copy.

First let me say that when I read this, I didn't realize that this was part of a collection. I must have been under a rock or something. Of course the two other companion novels were the two DiCamillo books I had not read yet: Book 1 Raymie Nighingale and Book 2 Louisiana’s Way Home.

Having read and really loved Louisiana's Way Home, which I read very recently, I was anxious to read Beveryly Right Here.

I have not yet read Raymie Nightengale, I guess because Beverly popped up on NetGalley, I decided to read it. Having read the books out of sequence is fine, however I highly recommend reading them in order. They are more enjoyable and make better sense that way.

A story of friendship, heartache, moving on and changing the status quo.

New York Times best-selling author Kate DiCamillo’s touching, funny, and fearless conclusion to her sequence of novels about the beloved Three Rancheros. Though this is a stand-alone book, it is a companion novel to Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana’s Way Home.

Beverly Tapinski has no reason to stay at home. Her dog is dead and her alcoholic mother is more interested in herself and drinking than being a mother. So Beverly heads to Florida. She locates a place to stay, in Iola Jenkin’s trailer, and by lying about her age she finds a job at Mr. C’s restaurant.

As with many of DiCamillo’s books, the characters are unique and tend to own their place in the book. Iola is a lonely older woman who has lost her driving privileges and yet is still anxious to enjoy life on her terms, not her son’s. She picks up on the fact that Beverly might need a place to stay, so she allows her to move in her trailer with her. Though it works as a two-way road. She helps fill a void in Iola’s life, and also Iola wonders if Beverly can drive. Though only 14, Beverly poses as Iola Jenkin’s niece and happily becomes the driver. While Beverly is slow to form too much of a relationship with Iola, in time subtle lessons are passed on to Beverly about friendship, consideration, and trust.

Other key characters include Elmer a clerk she meets at Zoom City, and Freddie a waitress who helps Beverly get her job at the restaurant.

While the first book focuses on Raymie, Louisiana, and Beverly, this one as the title suggests is only about Beverly. A young girl who has developed a bit of a tough exterior and is determined to be independent and find her own way.

This book is an enjoyable story of watching Beverly grow with others as well as learn more about herself.

My thanks to #CandlewickPress and #NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book. I appreciate being able to post my opinion.

What Concerned Me:
Though there really wasn’t anything I could put my finger on, I didn’t feel as connected with this story as other books by this author. I would still highly recommend it, however.

What I Liked Best:
I certainly liked the characters that surrounded Beverly and I enjoyed seeing the relationships grow with each of them.
Actual rating 4.5

As a fan of Kate DiCamillo I was not surprised to enjoy the new book "Beverly, Right Here". DiCamillo's style of writing always has such heart, realness and sweet touches, while being interesting and having characters you feel like you get to know deep in your heart. Beverly's tough attitude gives way to tenderness as she connects with new friends and new relationships that challenge her previous experience with friendship, love, and trust. It was touching to see how the characters in the book needed each other, and only after coming together were they able to find pieces of themselves that they needed to be happy.

As I finished this book I was made aware that this is book #3 in a series - preceded by Raymie Nightingale (#1) and Lousiana's Way Home (#2). I quickly ran out to get the first two in the series to learn even more about the delightful characters the author created.

My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for a free ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. #BeverlyRightHere #Netgalley

It was an OK book. Full disclosure: I did not read the first book in which this character appears - perhaps I would feel different if I had. I felt that I wanted to know more - more things that were crossing the character's mind, more depth in a way.

Kate DiCamillo's writing is consistently like coming home and BEVERLY, RIGHT HERE, is no different. It's sweet, it's heartbreaking, it's a real story that is needed.

I like Kate DiCamillo's work, and I've really liked the other two companions to this one. I liked this one too, but it was oddly...existential, perhaps, for a middle grade book. There were moments where it felt more YA or even adult based on the action or the atmosphere or the characterizations, and I wondered whether this was more of a book with child characters that adults were meant to like rather than an actual book for young people. The arc of the plot was also fairly short, although perhaps for the length of the book that's to be expected. Overall, as I said, I enjoyed the book, but I'd like to see what readers in the actual intended age range would say.

In the third beautiful book about the Three Rancheros (Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana's Way Home), we find ourselves running away with Beverly Tapinski. After her dog, Buddy, dies, Beverly decides to leave home - and to take care of herself and no one else. Beverly, though, finds herself in a community of captivating characters and her big heart can't help it - she finds herself making new friends who help her figure out what really needs to be take care of. I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Beverly always was my favorite of the trio-- blunt, snarky, thoughtful, and all around... Beverly. After her dog passes away, she hitches a ride out of town, positive her alcoholic mother won't miss her. She moves into an elderly woman's trailer in exchange for driving her around town, and finds a job at a fish restaurant, all this despite her age of fourteen. Over this summer, she carves her own place into the quirky community. Contemporary magic, sure to become a classic.

Where to start? This was easily one of my favorite reads of the year so far. Beverly, Right Here is a quick read and a profoundly beautiful one for something that uses such an economy of words.

Kate DiCamillo introduces us to Beverly Tapinski, revisiting the world she created with Raymie Nightingale. Being the third in the series, I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to get into it, as I haven’t read the first two. First of all, I plan to rectify that immediately, because I can’t believe I’ve gone all this way without being familiar with DiCamillo’s works. And secondly, there was nothing to worry about, as Beverly worked just fine as a stand-alone,

I loved the cast—these were flawed, lovable people filled with depth and humanity. DiCamillo is not overly wordy here, but she made such a clear world that drew me in. I couldn’t put this book down. And when it came to its all too quick end, I was in desperate search for more pages, because I just wanted to read more. I will absolutely be on the lookout for more books by this author. This is another huge win for Candlewick Press.

Thank you to NetGalley and Candlewick Press for providing this ARC in exchange for a review.

Kate DiCamillo has charmed us again! Beverly, Right Here a charming coming of age story. Beverly simply walks out on her life with her mom after her dog dies. An amazing, but simple story unfolds of Beverly and the (mostly) charming people she encounters along the way. Beverly, Right Here is about knowing who you are and following your heart.

Beverly, Right Here gives us more of the self-possessed character, Beverly, we first met in Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana's Way Home. Kate DiCamillo is a master storyteller, perfect for middle grade readers.

I highly recommend Beverly, Right Here (in addition to Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana's Way Home, of course) for libraries serving students in grades 3-6.

Love reading anything by Kate Dicamillo! I eagerly await her next book! This one was everything I had hoped for.

Quite honestly, I am becoming a big Kate DiCamillo fan. Having enjoyed Lousiana's Way Home last year, I just couldn't resist reading her latest middle grade novel.

Fourteen year old Beverly Tapinski is devastated after the death of her dog and so she decides to leave and head out for adventure. Eccentric characters and hilarious situations occur and I fell into this tale immediately. I would certainly recommend it to a classroom library.

Goodreads review published 25/08/19
Publication Date 24/09/19

Thanks to Netgalley and Candlewick Press for a digital galley in exchange for an honest review.

Beverly, Right Here is the third part of an unintended series (Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana's Way Home being the other two parts) that focuses on the exploits and growth of the three titular characters. Set in an idealized 1970s, Beverly has run away from home after being abandoned by her father (who left the family), her mother (who exists in a state of perpetual drunkenness), her friend Louisiana (who has moved to Georgia), and now, at the start of the novel, her dog Buddy (who has passed away). She soon finds herself in a small Florida town largely populated by eccentric (but generally kind) individuals. Beverly's longing for meaning and place is palpable throughout the prose and DiCamillo should be lauded for her skill in doing this.

Young readers might like this novel rather less than adult readers (who might better identify with the wistful treatment of both Beverly's angst and genuine trauma) and more critical readers might balk at the near fairyland (or perhaps overly nostalgic?) vision of 1970s small town life both in this novel and across the series. All three girls continually find themselves in towns where strangers immediately offer shelter and love to runaways and abandoned girls and where the only real threats are the death of pets and disappearing parents (who are, as mentioned, almost immediately replaced). The quality of the writing makes the unlikelihood of these events less evident in the moment, but I find those questions generally return within 15 minutes of completing the novel.

I haven't read the series of books so I feel like I have probably missed some of the story. Beverly is a unique kid who reacts badly, by running away, when her dog dies. She then finds comfort and support amongst a group of unlikely characters who allow her to befriend them, work with them and even live with them. She is a precocious 14-year-old and seems both vulnerable and fearless depending on the situation. She is a well written character and this is an interesting book for young readers. Very sweet story.

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Beverly Tapinski is 14-yrs old when she runs away from home, spurred on by the death of her dog Buddy and her single mother's drinking. Despite that depressing premise, this story is actually a hopeful one of friendship and joy. Set in 1979 on America's south coast, we see Beverly transformed from an angry and wounded kid, into a caring and happy young lady (not that she'd appreciate that epithet). The people she meets after running out of her cousin's car somewhere she's never been before are an eclectic mix of helpers and helpees.

I hadn't read DiCamillo's previous books about Beverly's friends Raymie Nightingale and Louisiana Elefante, but my 11-yr old daughters have and they filled me in. I'm eager for them to read Beverly, Right Here next, and this book is excellent as a stand-alone, one need not read the entire series to appreciate it, and thankfully this doesn't read like a serial at all. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC!

Beverly has run away from home for the last time. This time it is just leaving and finds herself in Tamaray. She finds a job busing tables at Mr. C's fish restaraunt and living in a tiny trailer with Iola. Beverly misses her friends Raymie and Louisiana, but mostly her dog Buddy who is buried beneath the orange trees in her backyard. Despite trying to remain aloof, Beverly makes friends with Iola and Elmer and Nod the cat. They make their own kind of family.

I loved this series of books and I think I might love Beverly's story the most. We are just dropped into her life for this week. If you haven't read the other books you probably don't even know what she is referring to when she talks about Raymie and Buddy and Louisiana, but that doesn't matter. Beverly is a force of her own and I feel like she really comes into her own in this book. I loved that we just get a glimpse of this week and we don't know what is going to happen after or where Beverly is going from here.

It true Kate DiCamillo form, it took unlikely characters and put them together to form a family. This book reminded me of Because of Winn Dixie. However, this in this book, the characters are older. I wasn’t quite sure how I would like it for my class, as in the opening chapter, Beverly runs away from home. However, not too long into the book, I found myself falling in love and rooting for all the characters; which is something that I find Kate excels at getting the reader to do.

I received an Advanced Reviewer Copy of Beverly, Right Here by Kate DiCamillo from the publisher Candlewick Press through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What It’s About: Beverly is the daughter of a single mother who cares more about drinking than about being with her daughter or really what her daughter is up to. Beverly's dog has just died and devastated by the loss Beverly decides to leave and go to another part of Florida where she meets a few misfits. While this appears to be part of a series, it is is unnecessary to read all the books to enjoy this one (I did not).

What I Loved: This book was nostalgic. I read Because of Winn Dixie when I was little and this book really reminded me of it (same author, not a huge surprise). The descriptions of summer in Florida and the fierceness of the female protagonist as well as the unique characters she meets and befriends is just so lovely and makes reading this a delight.

What I didn’t like so much: Sometimes Beverly was a bit too crabby and sarcastic for me and seemed more adult than I expected a 14 year old to be, but that might just be her circumstances. She could be very mean and dismissive at time, but then again so can other 14 year olds. I wouldn't say this was a huge problem.

Who Should Read It: People who love DiCamillo's writing. People who love a story about misfits coming together. People who love stories about grumpy/angry people coming out of their shells. People who love middle grade.

General Summary: A story of a young girl who finds a sense of belonging with a cast of misfits.

Kate DiCamillo is a masterful storyteller. I devoured this book in one sitting. The plot unfolds beautifully in her latest book, Beverly, Right Here. The characters are complex and quirky. I enjoyed getting to know Beverly even more in this final book of the trilogy. She has some grit, and readers will love her. Readers who enjoyed Raymie's and Louisana's stories will love Beverly's story as well.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me a copy of this test to read and review.