Sheila O'Connor
2) Sparrow Road
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Raine spends the summer at a mysterious artists colony and discovers a secret about her past.
Author
Publisher
Rose Metal Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, novelist Sheila O'Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to be a star. Drawing on the little-known American practice of incarcerating adolescent girls for "immorality" in the first half of the twentieth century, O'Connor follows young...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In rural Minnesota in 1974, thirteen-year-old Pride Star, raised to be independent, must accept help from friends and neighbors to care for eleven-year-old Nightingale and six-year-old Baby when her grandfather is hospitalized with a brain infection.
