Publication
Scholastic Press (2001), Edition: First Edition, 224 pages
Description
Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country, and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away, her brother and father are fighting again, and she becomes involved with the two new children in her class.
Subjects
Awards
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2005)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2006)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — Children's — 2004)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2004)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee — 2004)
William Allen White Children's Book Award (Nominee — Grades 3-5 — 2003-2004)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2005)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee)
Nēnē Award (Nominee — 2004)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — Grades 4-6 — 2004)
South Carolina Book Awards (Nominee — Children's Book Award — 2006)
Young Adult Favorites Award (2003)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2001
ISBN
0439098238 / 9780439098236
DDC/MDS
| 813 |