| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
210 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Indexed In: |
Wilson's Junior High School, April 2001 |
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School Library Journal, November 1998 |
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Booklist starred, November 1998 |
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Publisher's Weekly, October 1998 |
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New York Times, February 1999 |
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Book Report, May 1999 |
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L.A. Recommended Foreign Language, February 2000 |
| Summary |
Growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, ten-year-old Alice has no one to talk to but Leroy, the black farm hand, but when Alice's doctor father moves the family to Tennessee, she has trouble fitting in and she sorely misses Leroy. |
| Audience |
5.2 |
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3-6 Follett Library Resources |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG RL 5.1 8.0 LARK |
| Subject |
Country life -- United States -- Fiction.
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Family life -- Fiction.
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Father-daughter relationship -- Fiction.
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Race relations -- Fiction.
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School stories.
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Southern States -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0689822189 |
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