Crossing the Tracks
of Barbara Stuber (Goodreads Author)
Description
At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her motherâs early death, Irisâs father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctorâs elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer, Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors and, Iris suspects, his own daughter. Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her shell, tragedy strikes. Iris must find the guts and cunning to take aim at the devil incarnate and discover if she is really as helplessâor as hopelessâas she once believed. Lyrical, yet humorous, Barbara Stuberâs debut novel is the unforgettable story of a girl who struggles to cast aside her long-standing grief and doubt and, in the span of one dusty summer, learn to trust, hope, andâultimatelyâlove.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272 pages
- Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Publication Date July 6th 2010
- First Publication 06/18/10
- Language English
- ISBN 9781416997030
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Missouri (United States)']
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