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Little Audrey
By White, Ruth Anne
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37434-580-8
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2008
Gr 4-7 In the voice of her sister Audrey at age 11, White has created a fictionalized memoir of her life as a child in a Virginia coal mining camp. It is 1948, and the family is living in grinding poverty with an alcoholic father and a mother who suffers periods of depression. School bullies torment Audrey, calling her Skeleton Girl (her weight "fell off" during a bout of scarlet fever), and dare her to climb the water tank at night and walk around the perimeter. Shining through the gloom are Audrey'...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
With a heart-wrenching sense of time and place, White tells of one child's experiences in Virginia's impoverished coal country in 19...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
