A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

The New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in small-town Indiana, from the author of The Solace of Leaving Early.

When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period-people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 09/03/2002
ISBN: 9780767915052
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70d
Award: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Booklist 06/01/2004 pg. 1695

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 68826 / Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
Reading Level: 6.1 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 12