Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend.
year: 1999
call number/section: 1000
subjects: fathers and sons, fiction, stores, retail, people with mental disabilities, racially mixed people, mountain life, north carolina, great smoky mountains (n.c. and tenn.), fiction, north carolina