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<p><P><i>Around 5&#58;00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth.</i><P>Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts, and when her cousin Woodrow, Aunt Belle's son moves next door, she has her chance. Woodrow isn't as forthcoming as Gypsy hopes, yet he becomes more than just a curiosity to her&#151; during their sixth-grade year she finds that they have enough in common to be best friends. Even so, Gypsy is puzzled by Woodrow's calm acceptance of his mother's disappearance, especially since she herself has never gotten over her father's death. When Woodrow finally reveals that he's been keeping a secret about his mother, Gypsy begins to understand that there are different ways of finding the strength to face the truth, no matter how painful it is.<P>A Newbery Honor Book.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>PW gave a starred review to this Newbery Honor book about the friendship between a sorrowing 12-year-old girl and an unusual boy in 1950s Western Virginia: so fresh that readers can practically smell the lilacs and the blossoming

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Author

White, Ruth

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374306687

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Children'S, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.94 / 5 (66 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13