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Whistling Past the Graveyard [electronic resource]. Susan Crandall.

Crandall, Susan. (Author).

Summary:

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip. Whistling past the graveyard . That's what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. . . . In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla's destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is—as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

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  • Physical Description: 1 online resource

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Target Audience Note:
Text Difficulty 3
UG/Upper grades (9th-12)
4.5 ATOS Level
Subject:
Historical Fiction.
Literature.
Fiction.

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