num_pages: 224
description: Slumber parties, swimming pools, boyfriends, lakeside summers, family holidays--Susan Allen Toth has captured it all in this delightful account of growing up in Ames, Iowa, in the 1950's. Charming, wise, funny, poignant, and true, Blooming celebrates an innocent and very American way of life.
language: English
title: Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood
titlecomplete: Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood
genres: Memoir, Coming Of Age, Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 144
publisher: Ballantine Books