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Another of the possible Newbery winners... This one is sort of Southern Gothic-lite. The setting is Depression-era Louisiana, and our heroine is another preternaturally adult child (12). Her mother seems to be one of those girl/women who never should have had children, and her father just goes along with Mom. When Mom leaves, Dad takes Tennyson and her sister to his family's old, decaying mansion - once one of five plantations the family owned, pre-Civil War.
While there, Tennyson starts dreaming ...more
While there, Tennyson starts dreaming ...more
Feb 13, 2008
CLM
marked it as to-read
Oct 01, 2016
Clarissa
marked it as to-read
