Title: Semiprecious
Description: Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself."
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction, Accelerated Reader test book, Reading Counts test book, Schools, Mothers and daughters, 2008 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master list, History, Children's fiction, Family life, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Schools, fiction, Oklahoma, history, fiction
Places: Oklahoma
Time periods: 20th century