An edition of Borrowed children
(1988)
Borrowed children
by George Ella Lyon
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Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
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Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Depressions, Mountain life, Family life, Family, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction, Depressions, fiction, Kentucky, fiction, Tennessee, fiction, Family life, fiction, Mountain life, southern states, fictionPlaces
Kentucky, Memphis (Tenn.), Tennessee, MemphisTimes
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"A Richard Jackson book."
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Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her background.
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