" 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 betwee