โ Scribed by Kate O'Shaughnessy
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
**This sparkling middle-grade debut is a classic-in-the-making!
**Maybelle Lane is looking for her father, but on the road to Nashville she finds so much more: courage, brains, heart --and true friends. ****
Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him.
Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring out of the car radio. Going against Momma's wishes, Maybelle starts listening to her radio DJ daddy's new show, drinking in every word like a plant leaning toward the sun. When he announces he'll be the judge of a singing contest in Nashville, she signs up. What better way to meet than...
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