Title: Cliques, hicks, and ugly sticks
Description: Autumn of 1986 in the Ozarks finds eleven-year-old April Grace adjusting to middle school, coping with her mother's difficult pregnancy, helping Isabel with the church play, and trying to figure out why the new boy at school will not leave her alone.
Subjects: Theater, Middle schools, Christian life, Family life, Fiction, Schools, Farm life, History
Places: Arkansas
Time periods: 20th century