In the country of Queens

By Cari Best

Subjects: New york (n.y.), fiction, History, Family life, Bashfulness -- Fiction, Fiction, Family life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction, Children's fiction, Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction, Death, Bashfulness, Family life, fiction, Bashfulness, fiction, Death -- Fiction, Death, fiction

Description: In 1961, shy and overprotected eleven-year-old Shirley Alice Burns must begin speaking up if she is to do what she wants, including talking about her beloved, deceased father.