About the Author:
D. Anne Love is the author of several award-winning novels for young readers, including Defying the Diva, Picture Perfect, Semiprecious, and The Puppeteer’s Apprentice. Ms. Love lives in Texas hill country with her husband, Ron, and Major and Jake, their book-loving golden retrievers. You can visit her online at dannelove.com.
From School Library Journal:
Grade 5-7–Feisty Garnet Hubbard, 12, endures a difficult school year without her parents. Her father is in the hospital recovering from severe burns sustained in a work-related accident. Her mother, Melanie, intent on pursuing her dream of becoming a country-and-western singer in Nashville, has taken Garnet and her older sister, Opal, to live with their Aunt Julia. Rural and deeply conservative Willow Flats, OK, in the early 1960s is different from the girls hometown in Texas, and they miss their old way of life. They are also worrying about their father and having to deal with their mothers selfish betrayal and abandonment. By the end of the school year, they are happy to be going home to their healed dad, yet sorry about leaving their new friends and their aunt. That they are not reunited with their mother teaches Garnet about some of the costs–not only to oneself, but to others–of pursuing ones dreams. Loves descriptions are nicely evocative of a different time and place, but it is the intriguing questions she poses that make her an author to watch.–Catherine Ensley, Latah County Free Library District, Moscow, ID
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