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.
"The beauty of the book is the simple reading and the
powerful story that Lyon presents." -- Floyd County Times
