Whistling Past the Graveyard

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Whistling Past the Graveyard (2013, Simon & Schuster, Limited)

320 pages

English language

Published Nov. 19, 2013 by Simon & Schuster, Limited.

ISBN:
9781476707730

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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.

5 editions

Subjects

  • Fiction, coming of age
  • Friendship, fiction
  • Mississippi, fiction