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Nora, Nora

By: Anne Rivers Siddons
Narrated by: Debra Monk
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 At 12, Peyton McKenzie isn't ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone Nora, her redheaded, cigarette-smoking cousin who just rolled into town behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and she does make for good conversation with her friends at the Losers Club, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which means she can't be all bad. In fact, maybe Nora is just what quiet Lytton, Georgia, needs this summer.

And when Nora takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it looks like she might stay forever. But it becomes clear that something is troubling her. Peyton knows it's more than the local gossips who don't like Nora's "unsouthern" ways. When the shocking truth comes to light, it will stun this small segregated town and, more importantly, teach Peyton a lesson she will never forget about love and its enormous cost.

©2000 Anne Rivers Siddons (P)2000, 2003 HarperCollinsPublishers, Inc. Family Life Genre Fiction United States World Literature Fiction Tobacco

Critic Reviews

"In addition to her impeccable re-creation of Southern speech and atmosphere, Siddons captures the angst of adolescence with practiced skill, and she handles the rising drama of her plot so smoothly that the book has all the marks of bestsellerdom." (Publishers Weekly)
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Slow to get going with many characters, but then about half way through it settles down and finds a nice pace. Use of language is lovely, descriptions good. Would be ideal for a young adult. I enjoyed it. The reader is absolutely brilliant, and I found this story through tracking the reader. If you like the reader of this story, see also The Snow Child.

A lovely simple story for young adults

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