After Grandpa comes to live with them, 11-year-old tomboy Jaynell, called "Boy," discovers that he has befriended the Pickens, a poor family from the wrong side of the tracks, and when he dies, he leaves his house to the Pickens, which forces Jaynell to change her views on poverty forever, in a wonderful novel set in Texas in 1968. 17,500 first printing.
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Kimberley Willis Holt is the author of My Louisiana Sky and the winner of the 1999 National Book Award for When Zachary Beaver Came to Town. She lives in Amarillo, Texas.
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erly J. Brown
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Eleven-year-old Jaynell is taught to stay away from the Pickens—the poor family from the wrong side of the tracks. Fact is, nobody in Moon, Texas, has much, but everybody is real aware of who's got what and how much. Except Grandpap. He always makes time to visit with the Pickens, even after he buys a '62 emerald green Cadillac convertible. When Grandpap dies, Jaynell learns a secret about Grandpap that changes the way she will look at poverty forever.
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- PublisherPutnam Pub Group
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0399234020
- ISBN 13 9780399234026
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages167
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