Title: Noonie's masterpiece in purple
Description: Upon learning that her deceased mother, an artist, went through a "Purple Period," ten-year-old Noonie decides to do the same, hoping that this will bring her archaeologist-father home to see her win a school art contest and that the aunt, uncle, and cousin she lives with will come to understand her just a little.
Subjects: Family life, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Artists, Schools, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Self-actualization (Psychology), Families, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, general, Child artists, Drama, Children of single parents, Children