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The education of Ivy Blake

When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to a...

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Main Author: Airgood, Ellen (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2015]
Subjects:
Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Children of alcoholics > Juvenile fiction.
Dysfunctional families > New York (State) > Juvenile fiction.
New York (State) > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
Item Description: Companion book to: Prairie Evers.
Physical Description: 227 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9780399162787 (hardcover)
039916278X (hardcover)
Author Notes: Ellen Airgood (www.ellenairgood.com) is the author of Prairie Evers, which was a Bank Street Best Book and has won numerous state awards, and the adult novel South of Superior. She lives in Grand Marais, Michigan.

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