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When eleven-year-old Georgie and her sister Peaches relocate to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with their mother to help their Great Aunt Vie, Georgie becomes involved in the search for the truth about her new friend Markie's mother.

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Main Author:	Youngblood, Leslie C. (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	African Americans > Juvenile fiction. Friendship > Juvenile fiction. Families > Louisiana > Juvenile fiction. Louisiana > Juvenile fiction. Family life > Louisiana > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	When eleven-year-old Georgie and her sister Peaches relocate to Bogalusa, Louisiana, with their mother to help their Great Aunt Vie, Georgie becomes involved in the search for the truth about her new friend Markie's mother.
Physical Description:	323 pages ; 22 cm.
Audience:	Ages 8-12.
ISBN:	9780759555204 0759555206
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 was her first novel.