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Little Audrey

Author: Ruth White
Publisher: New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Juvenile fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Ruth White
ISBN: 9780374345808 0374345805
OCLC Number: 166317456
Target Audience: Ages 10 and up.
Description: 145 p. ; 20 cm.
Responsibility: Ruth White.
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In 1948, eleven-year-old Audrey lives with her father, mother, and three younger sisters in Jewell Valley, a coal mining camp in Southwest Virginia, where her mother still mourns the death of a baby, her father goes on drinking binges on paydays, and Audrey tries to recover from the scarlet fever that has left her skinny and needing to wear glasses.

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A nice addition to any library.

by AnchorageSchools (WorldCat user published 2009-12-02) Good Permalink

     Little Audrey by Ruth White. Little Audrey is the oldest of 4 children who live in Jewell Valley in Virginia where their father is a coal miner.  The year is 1948, Audrey's mother is mourning the loss of a baby, her father is an alcoholic and she is recovering from scarlet...
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