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Tamara Anderson was in third grade when she found out most people stay in the same house for more than a year. Until then she thought everyone picked up and moved on a regular basis, crossing the country, leaving behind people and bedrooms and belongings. Now sheâs turning fifteen, and she wants to stay in Mayville, New York. At first glance, there isnât much to stick around for. In the tarpaper house across the road there are the Murphys, the Baptist family who upset Tamaraâs atheist parents by inviting her to church. In the pasture thereâs Edith the cow. And up in the attic thereâs the ghost of the boy who used to live here, or at least thatâs what Tamara suspects. But this time Tamara is putting her foot down, and planting itâ¦
Taking us into the heart and mind of an unforgettable young girl, and a unique corner of a rural 1950s America, Sarah Willis presents a âheartfelt first novel [in which] the characters are so vivid and rounded they produce a reflected happiness in the reader.â (The Miami Herald)
About: Fifteen-year-old Tamara Anderson, whose peripatetic family has finally settled in rural Sherman, New York, in the 1950s, tries to cope with her mother's illness, her father's feckless artistic nature, and her burgeoning love for her new home
About: Fifteen-year-old Tamara Anderson, whose peripatetic family has finally settled in rural New York in the 1950s, tries to cope with her mother's illness, her father's feckless ways, and her burgeoning love for her new home.
About: Fifteen-year-old Tamara Anderson, whose peripatetic family has finally settled in rural New York in the 1950s, tries to cope with her mother's illness, her father's feckless ways, and her burgeoning love for her new home.
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