| 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 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 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 |
| Lexile Measure: 580 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.49" W x 8.59" (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 |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 6659 Reading Level: 3.6 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 4.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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. |