A Certain Strain Of Peculiar

Author: Gigi Amateau
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Category: Children's General Story Books
Age Group: 12-17
Book Format: Hardcover

A teenager journeys from shame to strength when she moves to her grandmother's farm in a story infused with southern spirit and heart.



This is the last time Mary Harold will have a panic attack at school when kids call her the grossest girl. If Mom won't move back to Alabama, her thirteen-year-old daughter will just have to drive herself 691 miles to Grandma Ayma's farmhouse — and a whole new life. With Ayma's loving support, Mary Harold is soon strong enough to help Bud, the Cherokee farm manager, wrangle the cows, and confident enough to stand up for his daughter, Dixie, a girl with a strain of peculiar that makes her whinny and stamp like a horse to keep the world at bay. Mary Harold still misses her mom, but has started to have dreams of the Black Warrior Forest that are offering clues. As she listens to their message, and to her own heart, she discovers how powerful and surprising the bonds of family can be.

Gigi Amateau is the author of Chancey of the Maury River and Claiming Georgia Tate. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

About Amateau Gigi
Gigi Amateau is the author of Chancey of the Maury River and Claiming Georgia Tate. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

(BK-9780763630096)

SKU BK-9780763630096
Barcode # 9780763630096
Brand Candlewick Press (MA)
Artist / Author Gigi Amateau
Shipping Weight 0.4000kg
Shipping Width 0.140m
Shipping Height 0.025m
Shipping Length 0.201m
Assembled Length 20.070m
Assembled Height 2.540m
Assembled Width 13.970m
Type Hardcover

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