num_pages: 224
description: An alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodrow can accept his mother’s disappearance when she’s never gotten over her father’s death. That’s when Woodrow tells Gypsy the secret about his mother.
language: English
title: Belle Prater's Boy
titlecomplete: Belle Prater's Boy
genres: Fiction, Family, Mystery, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Chapter Books, Childrens, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 5848
places: Coal Station, Virginia, Virginia
series: Belle Prater
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate
publisher: Yearling