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Twelve‑year‑old Amanda is thrust into motherhood and housekeeping while her mother falls ill in a Kentucky mountain community suffering under the Depression. Seizing a rare holiday to Memphis, she experiences life outside the hard, familiar rhythms of her family and learns to value both her present hardship and her heritage.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: George Ella Lyon
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