by Kaye Gibbons (Author)
Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. "The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word!"--Eudora Welty; "A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel."--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.
Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN
Publication Date: October 17, 2012
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Ellen Foster
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 6