Lucky strikes, Louis Bayard
Type
Label
Lucky strikes, Louis Bayard
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Lucky strikes
Oclc number
910980914
Responsibility statement
Louis Bayard
Summary
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--, Provided by publisherWith her mama recently dead and her pa sight unseen since birth, Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister-- and the family gas station. To keep a competitor at bay and keep her family out of foster care, Melia must come up with a father-- fast. When a hobo rolls out of a passing truck, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she convince the town that Hiram is her long lost father, and keep the family together until she comes of age?
Target audience
adolescent
Creator
Subject
- Juvenile works
- Poverty
- Service stations
- Absentee fathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Orphans
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction
- 1900-1999
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters
- JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Service stations -- Juvenile fFiction
- Tramps
- Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Poverty & Homelessness
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
- Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Absentee fathers
- Poverty -- Juvenile fiction
- Depressions
- Virginia
- Tramps -- Juvenile fiction
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Author
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification4
- Creator1
- Genre2
- Subject27
- Juvenile works
- Poverty
- Service stations
- Absentee fathers -- Juvenile fiction
- Fiction
- Orphans
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Juvenile fiction
- 1900-1999
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Brothers and sisters
- JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Service stations -- Juvenile fFiction
- Tramps
- Orphans -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Poverty & Homelessness
- JUVENILE FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
- Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Absentee fathers
- Poverty -- Juvenile fiction
- Depressions
- Virginia
- Tramps -- Juvenile fiction
- Content1
- Author1
- Related to1
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