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Airgood, Ellen, author. The education of Ivy Blake / Ellen Airgood.
pages cm
Companion book to: Prairie Evers.
Summary: When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother, she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home—and if she wants to achieve her dreams, she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
1. Mothers and daughters—Juvenile fiction. 2. Children of alcoholics—Juvenile fiction. 3. Dysfunctional families—New York (State)—Juvenile fiction. 4. New York (State)—Juvenile fiction. [1. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 2. Alcoholism—Fiction. 3. Family problems—Fiction. 4. Family life—New York (State)—Fiction. 5. New York (State)—Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.A28114Ed 2015 813.6—dc23 [Fic] 2014036182
ISBN 978-1-101-60394-9