Title: Me and Rupert Goody
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Fathers and sons, Fiction, Large type books, Mountain life, People with mental disabilities, Racially mixed people, Retail Stores, Stores, Retail, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction, North carolina, fiction
Places: Great Smoky Mountains (N.C. and Tenn.), North Carolina