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Hostetter, Joyce.

Blue / Joyce Moyer Hostetter.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: When teenager Ann Fay takes over as “man of the house” for her absent soldier father, she struggles to keep the family and herself together in the face of personal tragedy and the 1940s polio epidemic in North Carolina. [1. Poliomyelitis—Fiction. 2. Race discrimination—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction. 4. North Carolina—History—20th century—Fiction] I. Title.

ISBN: 978-1-59078-389-4 (hc) • ISBN: 978-1-62979-268-2 (ebook)

Pz7.H81125 B1 2006

[Fic]—dc22

2005033570

Quotations have been taken from 1944 and 1945

issues of the Hickory [N.C.] Daily Record.

Reprinted with permission.

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