Whistling past the graveyard
Crandall, Susan.
Whistling past the graveyard - First Gallery Books hardcover edition. - 308 pages ; 24 cm
"A novel"--Jacket.
Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
9781476707723 (hbk.) 1476707723 (hbk.)
2012045961
Girls--Mississippi--Fiction.
Runaway children--Fiction.
Race relations--Mississippi--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Mississippi--History--20th century--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Road fiction.
PS3603.R375 / W48 2013
813/.6
Whistling past the graveyard - First Gallery Books hardcover edition. - 308 pages ; 24 cm
"A novel"--Jacket.
Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
9781476707723 (hbk.) 1476707723 (hbk.)
2012045961
Girls--Mississippi--Fiction.
Runaway children--Fiction.
Race relations--Mississippi--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Mississippi--History--20th century--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Road fiction.
PS3603.R375 / W48 2013
813/.6