Buttermilk Hill (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

White, Ruth

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9781417729401: Buttermilk Hill (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

ISBN 10: 1417729406 ISBN 13: 9781417729401

Publisher: Turtleback Books, 2006

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. When Piper's parents divorce and gradually begin to make new lives for themselves, she finds all the changes difficult, but in time she starts to find her own way.

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About the Author:

Ruth White is the author of many novels, including the Newbery Honor Book Belle Prater's Boy and its sequel, The Search for Belle Prater, as well as Weeping Willow, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Ms. White lives in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.

From Buttermilk Hill

"There's got to be more than housecleaning and laundry, cooking and taking care of Piper, churchgoing and . . . and PTA!" Mama spit out each word like it put a bad taste in her mouth. "You couldn't stand my life for one day, Denver Berry, you know that?"
There was a pause before Daddy suggested, "You could work for Papa at the Tarheel."
Mama laughed. "No thank you, not interested."
"Just what are you interested in?" Daddy wanted to know.
"Well, it's not waiting on tables at a truck stop for tips. The Tarheel was your parents' dream, Denver. Now it's their whole life -- but not mine. I wish that's all it would take to make me happy."
"I'll tell you what would make me happy," Daddy said. "I want to have me a son and raise him up here in Buttermilk Hill, and live a simple life. That's all I want, and it's all you should want, too."
"We have nothing to offer another child!" Mama's voice was angry. "We're still living in a trailer, for crying out loud!"
"We won't always live in a trailer," Daddy said.
"But right now we do!" Mama went on. "And having another child would not be fair to anybody!"
"I'll tell you what's not fair," Daddy said. "That I've got only one kid and it's not a boy!"
It changed position in bed and counted the tree silhouettes against the night sky.

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