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Author Madden, Kerry.

Title Gentle's Holler / a novel by Kerry Madden.

Publication Info. New York : Viking, 2005.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department  JF MADDEN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department  J MADDEN    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Children's Department  JF MAD    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J MADDEN    DUE 09-01-05 Billed
Description 237 pages ; 22 cm
Audience Ages 10 up.
Summary In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.
Contents Daddy's roasted peanuts -- Mama's biscuits -- Mathew the Mennonite -- Grandma's glass eyes -- Floating checks -- Watermelon shoes -- Lost -- Ring of seven sisters -- Venus -- Enka-Stinka -- Howdy-do Mae's -- Twilight -- Settlers days -- Ghost town in the sky -- Oatmeal baths -- Healing in the Holler -- Mountain dance & Folk Music Festival -- Daddy -- Getting by -- Black Mountain.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.1 8.0 86851.
Subject Family life -- North Carolina -- Fiction.
Music -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Fiction.
Blind people -- Fiction.
People with disabilities -- Fiction.
North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Poverty -- Juvenile fiction.
Blind -- Juvenile fiction.
People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction.
North Carolina -- Juvenile fiction.
ISBN 0670059986 hardcover
9780670059980 hardcover
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