Rabble Starkey
By: Lois Lowry.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780395436073
Copyright date: 1987
Subjects: Friendship -- Fiction.; Mental illness -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Description: Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend, Veronica Bigelow when Veronica's mother becomes mentally incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows.
Notes: j-126,680

Boston Globe/Horn Book Fiction Award Winner, 1987

"And there I was only thirteen years old, and Ginger Starkey, he had finished tenth grade and been out of school for three years -- he was probably twenty, even --" "And you'd never been with a guy who drove his own pickup before, and next thing you knew --" She took the story back from me. "Next thing I knew, we was already in the next county and I made him stop so's I could send a postcard to my mother." "And the postcard said --" That was Veronica asking. Veronica always liked what the postcard said. Sweet-Ho laughed. "Dear Mama, I have gone off to get married and I forgot your molasses. By the time you get this my name will be Sweet Hosanna Starkey." "She forgave you, though," I said with satisfaction. "She forgave me because I came home with a ginger-haired baby," Sweet-Ho said, "and my mama, she was a pushover for babies of any kind and she'd never seen one with hair like that before." She reached over and ran her fingers down through my hair. "It's still just as pretty as your daddy's was, Rabble." - Jacket.