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Blue / Joyce Moyer Hostetter.

Hostetter, Joyce Moyer, (author.).

Summary:

When teenager Ann Fay takes over as "man of the house" for her absent soldier father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in the face of personal tragedy and the 1940s polio epidemic in North Carolina.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781590783894
  • ISBN: 1590783891
  • ISBN: 9781451712070
  • ISBN: 1451712073
  • ISBN: 9781590788356
  • ISBN: 1590788354
  • Physical Description: 197 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition.
  • Publisher: Honesdale, PA : Boyds Mills Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Publisher and pagination may vary.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
War hits home -- Victory garden -- Wisteria mansion -- Polio! -- Bobby -- Epidemiologists -- Bobby's toys -- Outcasts! -- Hickory daily record -- Hospital visit -- Pete -- Hearse comes back -- Funeral -- Plan -- Escape -- Tough as hickory -- Colored girl -- Hospital -- Bottle collection -- Imogene's people -- Muddy wide river -- Visiting day -- Wheelchair -- "Miracle of hickory" -- Charlotte memorial -- President -- Victory!
Target Audience Note:
780L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.9 7.0 113347.
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 4.9 7 113347.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 4.5 13 Quiz: 40450 Guided reading level: S.

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Genre: Fiction.

Available copies

  • 143 of 155 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 5 of 5 copies available at Harnett County Library.

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Anderson Creek School Media Center J F Hot (Text) 30492456 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Angier Public Library J PBK F Hos (Text) 33632002662626 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Dunn Public Library J F Hos (Text) 33436001655346 Juvenile Fiction Available -
Erwin Public Library YA F Hos (Text) 33631001527210 Young Adult Fiction Available -
Harnett County Main Library J F Hos (Text) 33630003923591 Juvenile Fiction Available -