Borrowed Children

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Originally published by Bantam Starfire 1988.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lyon, George Ella, 1949–
    Borrowed children / George Ella Lyon.
       p.  cm.
       Summary : 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 background.
       ISBN-10: 0-8131 -0972-8 (alk. paper)
       1. Depressions—1929—Kentucky Juvenile fiction. 2. Depressions—
    1929—Tennessee—Memphis Juvenile fiction. 3. Kentucky Fiction.
    [1. Depressions—1929 Fiction. 2. Mountain life—Kentucky Fiction.
    3. Family life—Kentucky—Fiction. 4. Memphis (Tenn.) Fiction.] I. Title.
    PZ7.L9954Bo   1999
    [Fic]—dc21                99-32579
    ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-0972-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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