Borrowed children
By: George Ella Lyon.
Publisher: Orchard Books
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Kentucky -- Juvenile fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Juvenile fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; Mountain life -- Fiction; Family life -- Fiction; Kentucky -- Fiction; Memphis (Tenn.) -- Fiction
Description: Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
Notes: "A Richard Jackson book."