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.".
year: 2009, 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: family life, oklahoma, fiction, mother-daughter relationship, school stories, oklahoma, history, fiction, families, juvenile fiction, mothers and daughters, schools, 20th century, juvenile fiction
Editions
Love, D. Anne
Margaret K. McElderry Books (2009)
In the early 1960s, Melanie Hubbard moves her two daughters, Opal and Garnet, from Texas to Oklahoma and leaves them at her sister's house. While Opal excels in school and makes many friends, Garnet finds herself struggling and loses pride in herself.
Schools: 0
Love, D. Anne
M.K. McElderry Books (2006)
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.".
Schools: 2