Before we were yours : a novel / Lisa Wingate.

"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and...

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Main Author: Wingate, Lisa (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ballantine Books, [2017]
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