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Blue / Joyce Moyer Hostetter.

Hostetter, Joyce Moyer, (author.).

Summary:

When teenager Ann Fay takes over as "man of the house" for her absent soldier father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in the face of personal tragedy and the 1940s polio epidemic in North Carolina.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781590783894
  • ISBN: 1590783891
  • ISBN: 9781451712070
  • ISBN: 1451712073
  • ISBN: 9781590788356
  • ISBN: 1590788354
  • Physical Description: 197 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition.
  • Publisher: Honesdale, PA : Boyds Mills Press, 2006.

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General Note:
Publisher and pagination may vary.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
War hits home -- Victory garden -- Wisteria mansion -- Polio! -- Bobby -- Epidemiologists -- Bobby's toys -- Outcasts! -- Hickory daily record -- Hospital visit -- Pete -- Hearse comes back -- Funeral -- Plan -- Escape -- Tough as hickory -- Colored girl -- Hospital -- Bottle collection -- Imogene's people -- Muddy wide river -- Visiting day -- Wheelchair -- "Miracle of hickory" -- Charlotte memorial -- President -- Victory!
Target Audience Note:
780L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.9 7.0 113347.
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.9 7 113347.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.5 13 Quiz: 40450 Guided reading level: S.

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Subject:
Poliomyelitis > Juvenile fiction.
Race discrimination > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers > Death > Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls > Juvenile fiction.
Racism > Juvenile fiction.
Responsibility > Juvenile fiction.
Children and war > Juvenile fiction.
Grief > Juvenile fiction.
Friendships.
Racism.
North Carolina > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
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Fiction.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Madison County Public Library.

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Madison Main Library J FIC HOS (Text) 30229101075025 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Mars Hill Library J FIC HOS BMS1 (Text) 30229101075033 Juvenile Fiction Available -

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