Like a Sister

von Janice Daugharty

204 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

It is 1956, and thirteeen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who isn't interested in kids.  Taking charge of her life, Sister befriends  a kindly neighbor named Willa, who appears to be everything a mother should be.  But when a respected and powerful man in town notices that Sister is blossoming -- unsupervised -- into quite a young woman, trouble starts to brew.  Willa soon steps in to intervene, and Sister thinks she may have found salvation. But within the pages of Like a Sister, things are never what they seem.Depicting a vulnerable, heartbreaking, and richly Southern world, Like a Sister allows readers to gaze through the eyes of a young whom they will not soon forget.

• Reihe: PerfectBound
• ISBN: 9780060931797
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2000
• Größe: 202 x 134 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins