Kimberly Willis Holt

My Louisiana Sky (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Brings fresh perspective to the guilt and anger and caring that surround the mentally disabled. All the characters . . . are drawn with warmth but no patronizing reverence." -Booklist, Starred Review

Set in the South in the late 1950s, this coming-of-age novel about the importance of family and home explores a twelve-year-old girl's struggle with grief, navigating life with her developmentally disabled parents, and the changing world around her.

Tiger Ann Parker wants nothing more than to get out of the rural town of Saitter, Louisiana--far away from her developmentally disabled mother and father, who can't read an electric bill, and her classmates who taunt her. So when Aunt Dorie Kay asks Tiger to spend the summer with her in Baton Rouge, Tiger can't wait to go. But before she leaves, the sudden revelation of a dark family secret prompts Tiger to make a decision that will ultimately change her life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429991025
• Artikelnr.: 39955496

Autorenporträt

Kimberly Willis Holt is the author of the many award-winning novels for young adults and children, including The Water Seeker, Keeper of the Night, and When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, winner of a National Book Award for Young People's Literature. She is also the author of the bestselling Piper Reed series of chapter books, and picture books including Waiting for Gregory and Skinny Brown Dog. Holt was born in Pensacola, Florida, and lived all over the U.S. and the world-from Paris to Norfolk to Guam to New Orleans. She long dreamed of being a writer, but first worked as a radio news director, marketed a water park, and was an interior decorator, among other jobs. She lives in West Texas with her family.