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Madden, Kerry

Gentle's Holler

242 pp. | Viking | March, 2005 | Trade ISBN 0-670-05972-2 $16.99
(3) 4-6 With eight siblings, a mother busy with a newborn, and an unemployed musician father, twelve-year-old Livy Two Weems takes on numerous responsibilities (including caring for her blind younger sister, Gentle) but finds time to compose mountain songs and get lost in books. Madden leavens the hardship of poverty in Appalachia with a joie de vivre the family maintains even through tragedy.
Reviewer: Hilary Breed Van Dusen

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