Borrowed children
By: George Ella Lyon.
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 165
ISBN-13: 9780553283808
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.; Mountain life -- Fiction.; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.; Mountain life -- Fiction.; Kentucky -- Fiction.; Memphis (Tenn.) -- Fiction.; Kentucky -- Fiction.; Memphis (Tenn.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda is given a holiday with her grandparents in Memphis.  Far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, here she finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.