Ebook {Epub PDF} Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber

8 rows ·  · Barbara Stuber is the author of the novels Girl in Reverse and Crossing the Tracks, which was Brand: Margaret K. McElderry Books. Barbara Stuber is the author of the novels Girl in Reverse and Crossing the Tracks, which was a finalist for the American Library Association William C. Morris Debut Award, a YALSA Best Fiction for YA and a Kirkus Best Book for Teens. When not writing, she is a docent at /5(27). Barbara Stuber. Crossing the Tracks. Prologue Atchison, Kansas – November I’m under Mama’s coffin. My little house in the center of the parlor has silky black curtain walls and a hard ceiling that I can touch with the top of my head if I sit cross-legged and stretch my neck. They moved all the furniture against the walls except a.

Barbara Stuber is the author of the novels Girl in Reverse and Crossing the Tracks, which was a finalist for the American Library Association William C. Morris Debut Award, a YALSA Best Fiction for YA and a Kirkus Best Book for bltadwin.ru not writing, she is a docent at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Visit Barbara online at bltadwin.ru Crossing the Tracks. Barbara Stuber. • 14 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts—no home, no family, no plan. Her mother died when she was six, and her selfish father hires her out as a companion to a country doctor's elderly mother. Iris, stuck in the middle of s rural Missouri. Crossing the Tracks by Barbara Stuber. While the snow was falling and Lincoln Public Schools were closed for a couple of days, I read the book, Crossing the Tracks, which I borrowed from the public library. I selected the book because the setting is in towns and cities not too far from where I grew up. The novel relates the story of a young.

Lily grew up in her new family and tried to forget her past. But with the Korean War raging and fear of “commies” everywhere, Lily’s Asian heritage makes her a target. She is sick of the racism she faces, a fact her adoptive parents won’t take seriously. For Lily, war is everywhere—the dinner table, the halls at school, and especially. CROSSING THE TRACKS. by Barbara Stuber ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 6, When he sends her to Missouri to be a paid companion to an elderly woman during the summer of , Iris suspects that her father is just getting rid of her so he can concentrate on Celeste, his fiancée, who’s working with him to open a new shoe store in Kansas City. Crossing the Tracks. Prologue Atchison, Kansas – November I’m under Mama’s coffin. My little house in the center of the parlor has silky black curtain walls and a hard ceiling that I can touch with the top of my head if I sit cross-legged and stretch my neck.