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Calkins Creek
20 July 2021

General fiction (Children's&YA)

Series: Bakers Mountain Stories

This middle-grade book, the fourth in the best-selling Bakers Mountain Stories series by Joyce Moyer Hostetter, features twin sisters Ida and Ellie Honeycutt, who find themselves growing apart as they respond differently to their father's postwar trauma, the NASCAR speedway in their town, and their new high school.

Twin sisters find themselves growing apart as they respond differently to their father's postwar trauma, the NASCAR speedway in their town, and their new high school

With home life destabilized by her father's post-World War II trauma, Ellie Honeycutt seeks escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Ida, clings to family and finds solace in her sketchbook. Their close relationship is threatened when they both fall for the same charming classmate at their new high school-but a devastating car accident renews the sisters' deep bond, forcing them to reverse their roles.

Set against the backdrop of the nuclear arms race and the 1952 presidential election, this middle grade historical fiction novel is a powerful story of sisterhood and growing up, told in thetwins' alternating voices.

By: Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Imprint: Calkins Creek
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 364g
ISBN: 9781635923582
ISBN 10: 1635923581
Series: Bakers Mountain Stories
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 20 July 2021
Recommended Age: From 10 to 14 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joyce Moyer Hostetter is the author of historical novels, including Blue, winner of the International Reading Association Children's Book Award. She lives with her husband in Hickory, North Carolina, close to her two adult children and nine grandchildren.

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