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Following my own footsteps

In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hahn, Mary Downing
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Clarion Books, c1996.
Subjects:	Family violence > Juvenile fiction. Parent and child > Juvenile fiction. Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction. World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	In 1945, Gordy's grandmother takes him and his family into her North Carolina home after his abusive father is arrested, and he just begins to respond to his grandmother's loving discipline when his father returns.
Physical Description:	186 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	0395764777
Author Notes:	Mary Downing Hahn grew up in College Park, Maryland. After graduating college, she worked as an art teacher, a college instructor, and a children's librarian in Prince George's Public Library System. She published her first novel, The Sara Summer, at the age of 41. Since then, she has been a full-time writer and averages one book a year. Her ghost story Wait till Helen Comes was the winner of 12 state children's book awards and she received the Scott O'Dell award for her World War II novel Stepping on the Cracks. She currently lives with her husband in Columbia, Maryland. (Bowker Author Biography)