Cover of Gentle's Holler

Book 2007

Gentle's Holler

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Publisher
Puffin
Language
English
Published
2007
  • Blind
  • Family life
  • Fiction
  • History
  • Music
  • People with disabilities
  • Poverty
  • Families

In the early 1960s, twelve-year-old songwriter Livy Two Weems dreams of seeing the world beyond the Maggie Valley, North Carolina, holler where she lives in poverty with her parents and eight brothers and sisters, but understands that she must put family first.