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Name: Queenie Peavy

Author: Robert Burch
Year: 1966
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ISBNs:
9780140323054
0140323058

Queenie Peavy is a puzzle to everyone but herself. SHE knows why she fires stones at anything and everything -- isn't she the best shot in Georgia? SHE knows why she is defiant with her teachers and deliberately mean to her schoolmates -- aren't they all against her? And Queenie doesn't care -- not Queenie Peavy!

The fact is that Queenie has a chip on her shoulder too big for a lonely thirteen year old to carry. Times have "turned off hard" for everybody in the early 1930s, and they are especially hard for a girl whose idolized father has been in jail and whose mother works long hours.

But in spite of all that, Queenie can be happy, for Queenie has character.

~ from back cover of 1975 Dell paperback edition