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  • I Would Rather Be a Turnip

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Hardcover (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, June 1, 1971)
    Twelve-year-old Annie gradually begins to understand the bigotry of the small town that makes her an outcast when her illegitimate eight-year-old nephew comes to live with her and her father.
  • Queen of Hearts

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Hardcover (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Jan. 1, 1978)
    After living a proud, independent widow's life, seventy-nine-year-old Granny Lincoln suffers a stroke that brings her twelve-year-old granddaughter, Wilma, to care for the old woman and to learn the meaning of growing old
  • The Kissimmee Kid

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Mass Market Paperback (Bantam Books, Jan. 1, 1984)
    Cattle rustling on a ranch in Central Florida is the focus of a fast-paced adventure in which Evelyn Chestnut has to choose between her sense of right and her sense of loyalty
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  • Delpha Green and Company

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Paperback (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, April 1, 1972)
    Delpha Green causes turmoil in the sleepy town of Chinquapin Cove when she attempts to recruit new church members
  • Dust of the Earth

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet, Sept. 6, 1977)
    The Drawns learn the real meaning of "family" and "Love" in their struggle to survive in the Badlands of South Dakota. They inherit a farm from their Grandpa who owns the farm in the Badlands. It ends up with a run down house and buildings. The real message in the book is that we are all so busy trying to survive that we never take the time to say "I love you".
  • Where the Lillies Bloom

    Vera & Bill Cleaver

    Paperback (Scholastic book Services, Jan. 1, 1974)
    Meet Mary Call. an irrepressible 14-year-old who has what it takes to get along in this world-spunk! When Mary Call vows to hold her orphaned family together, and to keep her dreamy sister from marrying a "villain", she becomes one of the most enterprising, tough, courageous, and unforgettable heroines you will ever meet.
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  • Where The Lilies Bloom

    Vera Cleaver

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Sept. 18, 2001)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An Appalachian girl, the eldest of an orphaned family, attempts to preserve her pride in the face of abject poverty and interfering neighbors.
  • Ellen Grae and Lady Ellen

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    (Signet, Aug. 11, 1986)
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  • Me Too

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Hardcover (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Oct. 1, 1973)
    Hoping to expunge neighborhood prejudice and to do something everyone else has failed to do, a twelve year-old desperately tries to teach her retarded twin.
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  • The Kissimmee Kid

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Paperback (Beech Tree Books, Sept. 1, 1991)
    Cattle rustling on a ranch in Central Florida is the focus of a fast-paced adventure in which Evelyn Chestnut has to choose between her sense of right and her sense of loyalty
  • Delpha Green and Company

    Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver

    Mass Market Paperback (Signet, March 2, 1976)
    Vintage paperback
  • DUST OF THE EARTH

    BILL CLEAVER' 'VERA CLEAVER

    Hardcover (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, March 15, 1977)
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