The Silver Star

Name: The Silver Star
Brand: Simon + Schuster LLC
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By Jeannette Walls

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-06-11 Pages: 280 Language: English Publisher: Scribner It is 1970. Bean Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte. a woman who flees every place shes ever lived at the first sign of trouble. takes off to find herself. She leaves the girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house. she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia. where their widowed Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying antebellum mansion that has been in the family for generations. An impetuous optimist. Bean discovers who her father was and learns many stories about why their mother left Virginia in the first place. Money is tight. so Liz and Bean start babysitting and doing office work for Jerry Madox. foreman of the mill in town. a big man who bullies...

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Original: English
Number of Pages:: 269
Publisher:: Simon + Schuster LLC
Publication Date:: 2013-06-30
Release Date:: 2013-06-11
ISBN / EAN:: 9781476744049
Weight:: 388 g
Dimensions:: 16/23/2 cm

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