The silver star

It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman "who flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble," takes off to "find herself." She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets...

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Main Author: Walls, Jeannette
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, c2013.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Summary:It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman "who flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble," takes off to "find herself." She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that's been in the family for generations.
Item Description:Compact discs.
Duration: 8:00:00.
Physical Description:7 sound discs (ca. 8 hr.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Production Credits:Director and producer, Carol Shapiro ; associate producer, Joanna Solotaroff.
ISBN:9781442362857
1442362855
Author Notes:Jeannette Walls was born in Phoenix, Arizona on April 21, 1960. She graduated from Barnard College and was a journalist in New York City for twenty years. Her books include a memoir entitled The Glass Castle and several novels including Half Broke Horses and The Silver Star.

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