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Weeping Willow
By White, Ruth Anne
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37438-255-1
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1992
Gr 7-Up The exuberant voice of Tiny Lambert, a young woman entering high school in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1950s, provides the strength in this coming-of-age/incest story. The charm of White's "happy days" look at the life of a rural teenager (first party-line phone, first television set, saddle shoes and poodle skirt) is piercingly ended by the not-so-charming rape of Tiny by her drunken stepfather. In the aftermath of the rape, s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
