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Borrowed Children Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Lyon, George Ella (Author)

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ISBN: 0813109728     ISBN-13: 9780813109725
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
OUR PRICE: $14.20  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1999
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Annotation: Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her background.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Multigenerational
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 99032579
Age Level: 12-UP
Grade Level: 7-UP
Lexile Measure: 580(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.49" W x 8.59" L (0.41 lbs) 134 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1920's
- Cultural Region - Mid-South
- Geographic Orientation - Kentucky
- Geographic Orientation - Tennessee
- Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age
- Topical - Family
- Locality - Memphis, Tennessee
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region - South
Features: Ikids
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/11/1999 pg. 78
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 6659
Reading Level: 3.6   Interest Level: Middle Grades   Point Value: 4.0
 
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Publisher Description:

" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist, Editor's Choice School Library Journal, Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly, Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an excape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the visit, she discovers unexpected parallels between her mother's childhood and her own and comes to understand her own individuality as well as what it means to be part of a family.

 
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