The Resource The silver star : a novel, Jeannette Walls
The silver star : a novel, Jeannette Walls
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The item The silver star : a novel, Jeannette Walls represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jay County Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The silver star : a novel, Jeannette Walls represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jay County Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 269 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451661545
- Label
- The silver star : a novel
- Title
- The silver star
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeannette Walls
- Subject
-
- Bildungsromans
- trueWomen artists
- trueFamily secrets
- trueVirginia
- trueWidowers
- trueUncle and niece
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence -- Fiction
- trueSelf-discovery in teenagers
- trueSisters
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Virginia -- Fiction
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMother-deserted children
- trueAdult books for young adults
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueSmall towns -- Virginia
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueMothers and daughters
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
- Summary
- Abandoned by their artist mother at the age of 12, Bean and her older sister, Liz, are sent to live in the decaying antebellum mansion of their widowed uncle, where they learn the truth about their parents and take odd jobs to earn extra money before an increasingly withdrawn Liz has a life-shattering experience
- Award
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2013
- Assigning source
- --From Worldcat
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10181687
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3623.A3644
- LC item number
- S55 2013
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The silver star : a novel, Jeannette Walls
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20001134
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 269 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451661545
- Isbn Type
- (paperback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012050790
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (DLC)BK0012411710
- Label
- The silver star : a novel, Jeannette Walls
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20001134
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Extent
- 269 pages
- Isbn
- 9781451661545
- Isbn Type
- (paperback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2012050790
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
- (DLC)BK0012411710
Subject
- true1970s -- 1970 -- 1979
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Bildungsromans
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueFamily secrets
- trueMainstream fiction
- trueMother-deserted children
- trueMothers and daughters
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence -- Fiction
- trueSelf-discovery in teenagers
- trueSisters
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueSmall towns -- Virginia
- trueUncle and niece
- trueVirginia
- Virginia -- Fiction
- trueWidowers
- trueWomen artists
Genre
- trueAdult books for young adults
- Bildungsromans
- trueComing-of-age stories
- Fiction
- trueMainstream fiction
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