Whistling past the graveyard
By: Susan Crandall
Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781476707723
Subjects: Race relations; Friendship; Runaway children; History; Girls; Fiction
Description: Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.

In 1963, determined to get to Nashville to find her mother, nine-year-old spitfire Starla runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home.  The plot contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.
Notes: Accelerated Reader UG 4.5 15 15 171634