Summary
At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts – no home, no family, no direction. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer, Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781416997030 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1416997032 |
| Author: | Barbara Stuber |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Margaret K McElderry Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 July 2010 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 150mm x 211mm |
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- “Stuber’s tender, evocative style aptly portrays both the evil and the good while remaining emotionally true… . [A] noteworthy debut.” –KIRKUS, starred review
About The Author
Barbara Stuber
Barbara Stuber is the author of the novels Girl in Reverse and Crossing the Tracks, which was a finalist for the American Library Association William C. Morris Debut Award, a YALSA Best Fiction for YA and a Kirkus Best Book for Teens. When not writing, she is a docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
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