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Reviewed on March 1, 2001
Gr 5-8 Eleven-year-old Jaynell Lambert often slips into the junkyard beside her house and sits behind the wheel of a salvaged car, "driving" herself wherever her imagination will take her. It is the summer of 1968 in a desolate Texas town, and her recently widowed grandfather has left his homestead to move into the Lambert house, where his increasingly bizarre behavior convinces Jaynell's parents that he is becoming senile. With Jaynell in tow, Grandpap makes daily treks to the cemetery to talk to the headston...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




