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Author:

White, Ruth, 1942-

Title:

Little Audrey / Ruth White.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Farrar Straus Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

145 p. ; 20 cm.

Subject:

Coal miners--Fiction.
Family life--Virginia--Fiction.
Country life--Virginia--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
Death--Fiction.
Virginia--History--20th century--Fiction.

Summary:

In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.

Indexed by:

Bklst 09/01/2008.
SLJ Sep 2008.
VOYA 2008 no. 4.
PW 08/04/2008.
Kirkus 08/01/2008.

ISBN:

0374345805 (:) :
9780374345808 (:) :

LCCN:

2007029310

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