Whistling Past the Graveyard

From an award-winning author comes a wise and tender coming-of-age story about a nine-year-old girl who runs away from her Mississippi home in 1963, befriends a lonely woman suffering loss and abuse, and embarks on a life-changing roadtrip.

Whistling past the graveyard. That's what Daddy called it when you did something to keep your mind off your most worstest fear. . . .

In the summer of 1963, nine-year-old Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. Starla's destination is Nashville, where her mother went to become a famous singer, abandoning Starla when she was three. Walking a lonely country road, Starla accepts a ride from Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. Now, on the road trip that will change her life forever, Starla sees for the first time life as it really is--as she reaches for a dream of how it could one day be.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 02/04/2014
ISBN: 9781476740041
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.90d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 171634 / Whistling Past the Graveyard
Reading Level: 4.5 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 15