" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an excape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the visit, she discovers unexpected parallels between her mother's childhood and her own and comes to understand her own individuality as well as what it means to be part of a family.
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George Ella Lyon is the author of Trucks Roll! , Planes Fly! , and Boats Float! , cowritten with her son Benn. Among George Ella's other books are the ALA Notable All the Water in the World and What Forest Knows . A novelist and poet, she lives with her family in Lexington, Kentucky. Visit her online at Geor
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