description: Queenie Peavy is a puzzle to everyone but herself. SHE knows why she fires stones at anything and everything -- isn't she the best shot in Georgia? SHE knows why she is defiant with her teachers and deliberately mean to her schoolmates -- aren't they all against her? And Queenie doesn't care -- not Queenie Peavy!The fact is that Queenie has a chip on her shoulder too big for a lonely thirteen year old to carry. Times have "turned off hard" for everybody in the early 1930s, and they are especially hard for a girl whose idolized father has been in jail and whose mother works long hours. But in spite of all that, Queenie can be happy, for Queenie has character. ~ from back cover of 1975 Dell paperback edition
language: English
title: Queenie Peavy
titlecomplete: Queenie Peavy
genres: Fiction, Teen, Young Adult, Historical, Childrens, Historical Fiction, Middle Grade
ratings_count: 203
places: Georgia
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: George C. Stone Center for Children's Books Recognition of Merit Award, awardedAt: -94665600000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Phoenix Award (Children's Literature Association), awardedAt: -126201600000
name: Best Children's Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)