CROSSING
the
TRACKS
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people,
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Copyright © 2010 by Barbara Stuber
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stuber, Barbara.
Crossing the tracks / Barbara Stuber.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: In Missouri in 1926, fifteen-year-old Iris Baldwin discovers
what family truly means when her father hires her out for the summer as
a companion to a country doctor’s invalid mother.
ISBN 978-1-4169-9703-0 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4169-9705-4 (eBook)
[1. Families—Fiction. 2. Household employees—Fiction. 3. Missouri—History—
20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.S937555Cr 2010
[Fic]—dc22 2009042672
To my grandmother
Ina May Baldwin Kohler
