Book description
" 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.
