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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Afraid Mamie will make good on her threat to send her to reform school, Starla starts walking to Nashville to find her momma, who went there when Starla was three. Out in the country, she accepts a ride from a black woman traveling with a white baby. And the trio embarks on a road trip that will change Starla's life forever.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Ruby is busy-running her late husband's bowling alley, wrangling her pistol of a sister, and chasing after the grandchildren her daughter abandoned. When she sees her runaway daughter starring in a TV commercial, there's only one choice-Hollywood or bust.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After a death at The White Camellia Orphanage, young Pip Tatnall leaves Lexsy Georgia, to become a road kid, riding the rails east, west, and north. A bright, unusual boy who is disillusioned at a young age, Pip believes that he sees guilt shining in the faces of men wherever he goes. On his picaresque journey, he sweeps through society, revealing the highest and lowest in human nature and only slowly coming to self-understanding.
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