Whistling Past the Graveyard
β Scribed by Crandall, Susan
- Book ID
- 108946371
- Publisher
- Gallery Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781476707723
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β¦ Synopsis
Whistling past the graveyard. Thatβs what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. . . . In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmotherβs Mississippi home. Starlaβs destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really isβas she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.
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