Belle Prater's Boy
Narrator: Alison Elliott
Imprint: Listening Library
Grades: Grade 5 & Up
Ages: 10 and up
Release Date: September 23, 2008
3 Hours and 39 Minutes
List Price: $32.30
ISBN: 9780739360880
Categories:
Juvenile Fiction - Mysteries & Detective Stories, Juvenile Fiction - Social Themes - Death, Grief, Bereavement, Juvenile Fiction - Family - Parents
When Belle Prater disappears, Belle’s boy, Woodrow, comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station, Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty, but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodrow can accept his mother’s disappearance when she’s never gotten over her father’s death. That’s when Woodrow tells Gypsy the secret about his mother.