Borrowed Children - Softcover

Lyon, George Ella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813109728 ISBN 13: 9780813109725

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 1999

Synopsis

" Golden Kite Award winner, 1989 Booklist , Editor's Choice School Library Journal , Best Books of 1988 Publisher's Weekly , Best Books of 1988 Twelve-year-old Amanda Perritt is pitched head-first into adult responsibilities when she has to quit school to care for her newborn brother and invalid mother. She gets an excape, she thinks, when she's offered a trip to stay with her grandmother and her sophisticated Aunt Laura in Memphis. But during the visit, she discovers unexpected parallels between her mother's childhood and her own and comes to understand her own individuality as well as what it means to be part of a family.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Borrowed Children was chosen as one of the best books of 1988 by both Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal, was an Editor's Choice in Booklist, and won the Golden Kite Award presented by the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in 1988.

"Lyon never uses her first-person narrator to talk down to young readers. Instead, she provides a singular voice to tell an equally singular story."--New York Times Book Review

"A many layered story of near tragedies and funny incidents, family history and bonds, and a girl who comes to understand her family and how much she loves each member of it."--School Library Journal, starred review

About the Author:

George Ella Lyon is the award-winning author of more than thirty books for children and adults. She is the recipient of the Publishers Weekly Book of the Year Award for Who Came Down That Road? and the Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year Award for Catalpa.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0813109728
• ISBN 13: 9780813109725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136