num_pages: 174
description: In 1888, hard-working twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, tormented because of a disfiguring harelip, takes her invalid grandmother to live on the Kansas farm that her drifter father has abandoned.
language: English
title: Before The Lark
titlecomplete: Before The Lark
genres: Historical
ratings_count: 17
places: Missouri, Kansas
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Spur Award
category: Best Juvenile
publisher: Blue Heron Publishing: Hillsboro, Oregon