Borrowed children
By: George Ella Lyon.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Depressions -- 1929 -- Kentucky -- Juvenile fiction.; Depressions -- 1929 -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Juvenile fiction.; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction.; Mountain life -- Kentucky -- Fiction.; Family life -- Kentucky -- Fiction.; Kentucky -- Fiction.; Memphis (Tenn.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; 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 background.