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Karen
May 27, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
This is a re-read. I read it back in 2005, and I enjoyed it just as much this time.
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Plot was problematic.
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Shelves: historical-fiction, era-1900-s
Lily, a fourteen year old motherles girl, runs away from her abusive and bigoted father. Her experiences in the segrated south give readers insight into the time.
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