Me and Rupert Goody
By: Barbara O'Connor.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Stores, Retail -- Fiction.; People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.; Racially mixed people -- Fiction.; Mountain life -- North Carolina -- Fiction.; Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.) -- Fiction.; North Carolina -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend.