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Nelda

By Edwards, Pat

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Eleven-year-old Nelda and her family have their share of hard times during the Depression, but Nelda knows it is her destiny to be rich some day and when she becomes a companion to the elderly Miss Mattie May, she knows she's taken a step in the right direction.

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ISBN
978-0-39543-021-7
Publisher
Boston : H. Mifflin Co., 1987.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on May 1, 1987

Gr 5-8 It wasn't until Nelda had her fortune read that she ever thought of being anything but dirt poor like her Mississippi family, reduced by the Great Depression to itinerant farming. Then her fortune is read, and she learns that she will become rich. Fortune, good and bad, comes quickly: no more work on the Connor farm, a wreck in the old flivver, the birth of Mama's twins, and Miss Mattie May Wynn, who helps the family with food and shelter and asks as payment that one of the childre...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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