Cover of Whistling Past the Graveyard

Book 2013

Whistling Past the Graveyard

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster, Limited
Language
English
Published
2013
  • Race relations
  • Friendship
  • Runaway children
  • History
  • Girls
  • Fiction
  • Bildungsromans
  • Mothers

Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.

In 1963, determined to get to Nashville to find her mother, nine-year-old spitfire Starla runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. The plot contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.