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Whistling past the graveyard

Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.

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Main Author: Crandall, Susan
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Gallery Books, 2013.
Edition:First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Girls > Mississippi > Fiction.
Runaway children > Fiction.
Race relations > Mississippi > Fiction.
Friendship > Fiction.
Mississippi > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Coming-of-age fiction.
Road fiction.
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Summary:Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
Item Description:"A novel"--Jacket.
Physical Description:308 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781476707723 (hbk.)
1476707723 (hbk.)
Author Notes:Susan Crandall is a critically acclaimed author of women's fiction, romance, and suspense. She has written several award-winning novels including her first book, Back Roads , which won the RITA award for best first book, as well as Whistling Past the Graveyard , which won the SIBA 2014 Book Award for Fiction. Susan lives in Noblesville, Indiana, with her family.

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