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by Jennifer Lauck (Author)
With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight....
Number of Pages: 432
Dimensions: 1.15 x 8.38 x 5.44 IN
Publication Date: September 01, 2001
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 17
