Title: Whistling past the graveyard
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.
Subjects: Race relations, Friendship, Runaway children, History, Girls, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Mothers, Grandmothers, Fiction, coming of age, Friendship, fiction, Mississippi, fiction
Places: Mississippi
Time periods: 20th century