At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963, grief-stricken after the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, eleven-year-old Annie Winters finds comfort holding an oblong stone she calls her "rock baby" and befriends a reclusive mountain woman with a devastating secret.
year: 2009
call number/section: 1000
subjects: grief, fiction, friendship, family life, mountain life, north carolina, history, fiction, depression (psychology), parent-child relationship, depression, mental, parent and child, grandparents, north carolina, 20th century
Editions
Hemingway, Edith Morris
Delacorte Press (2009)
At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home in the summer of 1963, Annie and her family grieve over her newborn sister's death while she befriends a mountain woman with a secret.
Schools: 7
Hemingway, Edith Morris
At her grandparents' North Carolina mountain home during the summer of 1963, grief-stricken after the death of her newborn sister and isolated by her mother's deepening depression, eleven-year-old Annie Winters finds comfort holding an oblong stone she calls her "rock baby" and befriends a reclusive mountain woman with a devastating secret.
Schools: 0