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Flying south
Elliott, Laura.
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HarperCollins, |
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c2003. |
| Pages: |
148 p. ; |
| ISBN: |
0060012145 |
| Copy info: |
13 copies available at Aspen Hill Library, Chevy Chase Library, Damascus Library, Davis Library, Marilyn J. Praisner Library, Gaithersburg Library, Germantown Library, Little Falls Library, Potomac Library, Rockville Library, Silver Spring Library, Wheaton Library, and White Oak Library.
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In the sticky-hot summer of 1968, a year in American history marked by assassinations, Vietnam War protests, and civil rights rioting, Alice faces some trying concerns of her own. Alice longs for a connection with her mother, who is beautiful but distant, caught up in the search for a husband who will help erase the memory of Alice's father. Alice's friendship with Bridget, a tennis-playing Twiggy, introduces her to competitiveness and the shallow pettiness of spoiled rich girls, as as well as to the prejudice that many Americans still feel toward black people. It is Alice's friendship with Doc, the family gardener and handyman, that continually brings her back to the truths that will shape the decsions in her life. Doc reminds Alice that life is about "passing the test" -- doing what's right. FLYING SOUTH celebrates a young girl's coming-of-age in a delicate, moving narrative that sings with the understated, yet resonate, pleasures of life in the American South.
Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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ISBN:
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0060012145 : $15.99
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ISBN:
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0060012153 (lib. bdg.): $16.89
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Personal Author:
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Elliott, Laura.
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Title:
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Flying south / Laura Malone Elliott.
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Edition:
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1st ed.
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Publication info:
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New York : HarperCollins, c2003.
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Physical descrip:
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148 p. ; 22 cm.
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Contents:
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Never forget whose grandchild you are -- Things have a time of beauty -- Sometimes the sun makes a person mean -- You gotta talk to a person to get an answer -- Girl deserves some pretty flowers -- You learn by watching, trying things out -- People can run hot and cold -- Life is long, child -- We can be a team -- Nature will always give you comfort -- Talking about parents causes headaches -- Attitudes are slower to change than law -- You''ve got a thinker inside you -- Allowed and wanted are two different things -- Never stand like a whipped puppy -- Find something worth talking about -- Birds hate to be caged -- Tuck memories away for eternity.
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Abstract:
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In Charlottesville, Virginia, amidst the social and political turmoil of 1968, eleven-year-old Alice learns when to fight battles and when to let go from her family's elderly gardener, Doc, and begins to connect with her widowed mother.
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Subject term:
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Mothers and daughters Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Gardening Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Race relations Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Single-parent families Fiction.
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Geographic term:
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Charlottesville (Va.)--History--20th century Fiction.
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