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Love like sky

Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.

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Main Author:	Youngblood, Leslie C. (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles ; New York : Disney*Hyperion, 2018.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Sisters > Juvenile fiction. Stepfamilies > Juvenile fiction. African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Families > Juvenile fiction. Sick > Juvenile fiction. Family life > Georgia > Juvenile fiction. Georgia > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.
Physical Description:	296 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781368016506 1368016502
Author Notes:	Leslie C. Youngblood received an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A former assistant professor of creative writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, she has lectured at Mississippi State University, UNC-Greensboro, and the University of Ghana at Legon. She's been awarded a host of writing honors, including a 2014 Yaddo's Elizabeth Ames Residency, the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Prize, a Hurston Wright Fellowship, and the Room of Her Own Foundation's 2009 Orlando Short Story Prize. In 2010 she won the Go On Girl! Book Club Aspiring Writer Award. Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, and raised in Rochester, she's fortunate to have a family of natural storytellers and a circle of supportive family and friends. Love Like Sky is her debut novel.