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.