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Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

Age 10-12
Grade 5-7

Delia Ray

Ghost Girl: A Blue Ridge Mountain Story

Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers June 7, 2016) , Reprint edition
Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it. But these are the Depression years, and Mama, who has been grieving ever since the accidental death of her seven-year-old son, wants April to stay home and do the chores around their dilapidated farm. With her grandmother's intercession, April is grudgingly allowed to go. The kind teacher encourages her apt pupil, who finds a new world opening up to her. But at home, April cannot repair the relationship with her mother, and worse, her mother overhears the dark secret April confesses to her teacher regarding the true cause of her brother's death, for which April feels responsible.
ISBN
0544706331 / 9780544706330
Pages
272
Weight
2.4 oz.
Dimensions
5.1 x 0.7 in.

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