Drive / Joyce Moyer Hostetter.
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TextSeries: Hostetter, Joyce Moyer. Bakers Mountain stories ; Publisher: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mill & Kane, [2021]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 360 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781635923582
- 1635923581
- 9781713746898
- 1713746891
- Coming of age -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- Twin sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Twins -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Fathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Juvenile fiction
- Stock car racing -- Juvenile fiction
- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- United States -- History -- 1945-1953 -- Juvenile fiction
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Fiction | HOSTETTE JOYCE MO | Available | 33111010515472 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 348-350).
"With home life destabilized by her father's postwar trauma, Ellie Honeycutt seeks escape at the NASCAR speedway and in her dreams of travel and college, while 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 and forces them to reverse their roles" -- Amazon.