Blue / Joyce Moyer Hostetter.

Author/creator Hostetter, Joyce
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoHonesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, ©2006.
Description197 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Poliomyelitis--Juvenile fiction.
Race discrimination--Juvenile fiction.
Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
North Carolina--History. --20th century. --Juvenile fiction.

Contents War hits home -- Victory garden -- Wisteria mansion -- Polio! -- Bobby -- Epidemiologists -- Bobby's toys -- Outcasts! -- Hickory daily record -- Hospital visit -- Pete -- Hearse comes back -- Funeral -- Plan -- Escape -- Tough as hickory -- Colored girl -- Hospital -- Bottle collection -- Imogene's people -- Muddy wide river -- Visiting day -- Wheelchair -- "Miracle of hickory" -- Charlotte memorial -- President -- Victory!
Abstract When teenager Ann Fay takes over as "man of the house" for her absent soldier father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in the face of personal tragedy and the 1940s polio epidemic in North Carolina.
General note"Calkins Creek Books."
Acquisitions source Joyner Roberts copy 30372016234004 Purchased from Amazon, 4/27/2012;
LCCN 2005033570
ISBN1590783891 (hbk.)
ISBN9781590783894 (hbk.)

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