Victoria Roubideaux

"... a lovely, gentle novel set on the plains cast of Denver. Tom Guthrie is a high school teacher with a depressed wife who leaves him with two young sons. Victoris Roubideaux is a pregnant teenager whose mother has kicked hcr out of lhe house. Maggie Jones is the school teacher who take pity on her. The Mcpheron brothers, elderly and silent ..."

"... Illi nois. “Wc have to find our con to other people in pected places." Thc forming of unlikely bonds between people of good will is the subject of "Plainsong." Victoria Roubideaux is a Ingli school student in a small Colorado town with a big problem She's pregnant and very- alone. Her mother has kicked hcr out of llie house and bei ..."

"... Tom Guthrie and thc two boys, Bobby and lkc, are left to rustic for themselves when their mother rouses from depression long enough to light out for Denver. Meanwhile Victoria Roubideaux ls thrown out of thc house by her mother because Victoria has, as thc phrase goes, gotten Into trouble. Thc only traditional family unit in the book is the Beckman household, a family that really sticks together admirably. Father, mother, and ..."

"... is emotionally vulnerable. She has long been caring for her ailing father, and has been divorced for many years. When a student at Tom and Maggie's high school old Victoria Roubideaux, played by America Ferrera (Real Women Have Curves) becomes pregnant by an aggressively irresponsible boy, and is thrown out of her home by her overwhelmed single mother, it affects Tom, ..."