Semiprecious

By D. Anne Love

Subjects: Reading Counts test book, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, 2008 Kentucky Bluegrass Award Master list, Accelerated Reader test book, Schools, Mothers and daughters, Family life

Description: Uprooted and living with an aunt in 1960s Oklahoma, thirteen-year-old Garnet and her older sister Opal brave their mother's desertion and their father's recovery from an accident, learning that "the best home of all is the one you make inside yourself."