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Before the Lark
Irene Bennett Brown
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Description for Before the Lark
Paperback. In 1888, hard-working twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, tormented because of a disfiguring harelip, takes her invalid grandmother to live on the Kansas farm that her drifter father has abandoned. Series: Windword Books for Young Readers. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 4W; YFN; YXF; YXK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 350.
Originally a Junior Literary Guild selection, Bank Street College choice for Best Books for Children, and winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile BookIn 1888 Kansas City, Missouri, twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, who has a cleft lip, no longer goes to school. Jocey believes that she will never have a friend, that others will always chase and make fun of her, as they did at school before she quit.Since her mother died and her father became a drifter, Jocey has lived with her grandmother, a washerwoman. When she's not helping Gram with laundry, she fills ... Read more
Originally a Junior Literary Guild selection, Bank Street College choice for Best Books for Children, and winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile BookIn 1888 Kansas City, Missouri, twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, who has a cleft lip, no longer goes to school. Jocey believes that she will never have a friend, that others will always chase and make fun of her, as they did at school before she quit.Since her mother died and her father became a drifter, Jocey has lived with her grandmother, a washerwoman. When she's not helping Gram with laundry, she fills ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Windword Books for Young Readers
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896727274
SKU
V9780896727274
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About Irene Bennett Brown
Irene Bennett Brown is the author of nine books for children, several of which are set in the Midwest. She based Before the Lark loosely on the correspondence of an early 1900s laundress-turned-homesteader whose six-year-old daughter harvested a ton of potatoes. Brown says, "Jocey—child of my imagination—became as real to me as any living person. I could only follow this ... Read more
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