With her father fighting in World War II and her mother's depression becoming worse and worse, twelve-year-old Ellen and her mom move to her Aunt Pearl's small cottage at the base of Snowden Mountain where she discovers the importance of family and friendship.
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call number/section: 1000
subjects: depression, mental, fiction, family life, moving, household, mothers and daughters, aunts, historical fiction, big island (va.), fiction, historical fiction