num_pages: 304
description: Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.A history-loving girl Lyndon Baines Hawkins's relentless search for the truth puts her in direct opposition to her fusspot grandmothers need to keep up appearances. Lyndie knows lots about history: she can tell you who President Lincolns best friend was the gruesome diseases of Civil War soldiers and where her Hawkins ancestors built log houses near her home town of Loves Forge Tennessee. But when it comes to her Ma and Daddy her knowledge is full of holes. Nobody talks about what happened to her veteran Daddy during the Vietnam war and why he came home different or why her Ma stays locked in her room for days or how come they had to sell the house Lyndie grew up in and move in with her strict grandparents. And Lyndies grandma Lady is determined to mold Lyndie into a nice southern girl who knows how to keep quiet about family secrets.
language: English
title: The True History of Lyndie B. Hawkins
publisher: Kathy Dawson Books / Penguin