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With a Hammer for My Heart
With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy calls her future into question.
Book Details
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publish Date: Mar 30th, 2007
- Pages: 213
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.94in - 5.58in - 0.65in - 0.67lb
- EAN: 9780813191751
- Categories: • Southern• Small Town & Rural• Family Life - General
About the Author
Lyon, George Ella: - George Ella Lyon is a former Kentucky poet laureate and the award-winning author of more than forty books for children and adults, including Many-Storied House, Which Side Are You On? (Winner, Aesop Prize), She Let Herself Go, Back, and Catalpa (Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year). Her poem "Where I'm From" is featured in the PBS series The United States of Poetry and has become a model for teachers around the world. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Praise for this book
"Lyon gives readers a story rich in precise, gorgeous language that glows like a sword on the forge and cuts as deep."
-- Booklist (starred review)