num_pages: 224
description: Ten-year-old Belle Teal Harper, who lives with her mother and grandmother in a small rural town in the early 1960s, faces unexpected challenges as she begins the fifth grade, from her friend's troubled relationship with his father to her grandmother's slipping memory.
language: English
title: Belle Teal
titlecomplete: Belle Teal
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Young Adult, Childrens, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Cultural, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 1157
places: The United States of America
awards: name: Child Magazine Best Book of the Year
publisher: Scholastic Press