Whistling Past the Graveyard
New York, NY : Gallery Books, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First Gallery books paperback edition.
Description: 308 pages ; 21 cm
Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
Subjects:
Girls -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Fiction.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Fiction.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Juvenile fiction.
Girls -- Mississippi -- Fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Fiction.
Grandmothers -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Fiction.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN:
9781476740041
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Crandall | Sandhills Indoors | Fiction | Transit Request |
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Includes readers group guide and discussion question.