| A Certain Strain of Peculiar Contributor(s): Amateau, Gigi |
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ISBN: 0007936569 ISBN-13: 9780763630096 Publisher: Candlewick Pr OUR PRICE: $16.82 Product Type: Published: April 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Thirteen-year-old Mary Harold has panic attacks at school when kids call her the grossest girl, so she drives herself 700 miles to Grandma Ayma's in Alabama, where she is nurtured. There, Mary befriends the farm manager's daughter, Dixie--an unusual girl with a strain of peculiar. |
| Additional Information |
| Library of Congress Subjects: - 01 |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - General (see Also Headings Under Family) - Young Adult Fiction | Science & Nature - General (see Also Headings Under Animals) - Young Adult Fiction | Family - Multigenerational |
| Dewey: Grandmothers; Fiction. |
| LCCN: Interpersonal relati |
| Series: 25 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the last time Mary Harold will have a panic attack at school when kids call her "the grossest girl." If Mom won't move back to Alabama, her thirteen-year-old daughter will just have to drive herself 691 miles to Grandma Ayma's farmhouse -- and a whole new life. With Ayma's loving support, Mary Harold is soon strong enough to help Bud, the Cherokee farm manager, wrangle the cows, and confident enough to stand up for his daughter, Dixie, a girl with a strain of peculiar that makes her whinny and stamp like a horse to keep the world at bay. Mary Harold still misses her mom, but has started to have dreams of the Black Warrior Forest that are offering clues. As she listens to their message, and to her own heart, she discovers how powerful and surprising the bonds of family can be. |