West Virginia twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey learns lessons about the inevitability of change after she and her mother, Sweet-Ho, who gave birth to her at the age of fourteen and never had a chance to get ahead, move into Rabble's best friend's home.
year: 1987, 1998, 1988
call number/section: 1000
subjects: mothers and daughters, fiction, friendship, mentally ill, mother-daughter relationship, single-parent family, fiction
Editions
Lowry, Lois
Houghton Mifflin (1987)
Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend, Veronica Bigelow when Veronica's mother becomes mentally incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows.
Schools: 2
Lowry, Lois
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers (1998)
West Virginia twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey learns lessons about the inevitability of change after she and her mother, Sweet-Ho, who gave birth to her at the age of fourteen and never had a chance to get ahead, move into Rabble's best friend's home.
Schools: 2
Lowry, Lois
Dell (1988)
Many things change for twelve-year-old Rabble Starkey, her mother, and her best friend, Veronica Bigelow when Veronica's mother becomes mentally incapacitated and the Starkeys move in with the Bigelows.
Schools: 0
Lowry, Lois
Schools: 0