Bibliograph

Whistling past the graveyard, Susan Crandall

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Label

Whistling past the graveyard, Susan Crandall

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Whistling past the graveyard

Oclc number

854980502

Responsibility statement

Susan Crandall

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, UG, 4.5, 15, 15, 171634

Summary

In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Afraid Mamie will make good on her threat to send her to reform school, Starla starts walking to Nashville to find her momma, who went there when Starla was three. Out in the country, she accepts a ride from a black woman traveling with a white baby. And the trio embarks on a road trip that will change Starla's life foreverIn 1963, determined to get to Nashville to find her mother, nine-year-old spitfire Starla runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. The plot contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs

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