Borrowed children /
George Ella Lyon.
- New York : Orchard Books, c1988.
- 154 p. ; 22 cm.
"A Richard Jackson book."
Having been forced to act as mother and housekeeper during Mama's illness, twelve-year-old Amanda has a holiday in Memphis, far removed from the Depression drudgery of her Kentucky mountain family, and finds her world expanding even as she grows to understand and appreciate her own background.
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87022700 /AC
Depressions--Fiction.--1929 Mountain life--Fiction. Family life--Fiction.