What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Carolina Harmony
SOLVED: Children's/YA
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SOLVED. Children's/ YA Historical Fiction. Set in 1950s. Runaways after accidental fire. Boy cuts girl's hair on train. Lands in foster home, and goes back home. [s]
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no...but maybe it was called the runaway or something of the like....will look into that
the main character is a girl - she had a sweet name, maybe a flower or a plant or something more whimsical
Is the main character a teenager or a younger child?Did it seem like a newish book at the time you read it?
The girl I remember to be around twelve.And I won't say it was new but it was definitely a modern book. Although set in the 1950's it was probably written in the 2010's.
This sounds super familiar to me!Do you remember if the girl disguised herself as a boy? Is that why the boy cut off her hair?
I've definitely read this book. I'll have to go through my shelf and look to see if I can find it!
No, she wasn't disguised as a boy. He cut it off as a cruel joke.
I'll keep looking!Hopefully Allie can find it in the meantime.
I'm looking! Its not on my book shelf which means I had to have read it in middle school - thinking I checked it out from the library. I will keep thinking on it, I definitely remember the story.
Some of it reminds me of Saving Ceecee Honeycutt but only bits and pieces. I wish I could see the history of the books I checked out at the library.
Hmm this doesn't seem to be it. But will look into it a bit more. Another thing - I may be thinking of another book but I think the girl's name may have been Caroline or Catherine or something of the sort, and the boy may have been Jack.
Was it definitely children's fiction?
yes. or young adult. was definitely targeted to for younger children
i looked, didn't see. thanks though.
cover art of moon over manifest (not the right book though) rings a bell, there might have been a girl on the cover. also the word blue is, might have been part of the title of I'm just starting to make things up at this post lol
this is it!thank you rainbowheart and Allie!
Awesomesauce!Glad it's solved. :)
What's the Name of That Book???
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She lives on a farm or country home.
The boy is nasty, they run away because he made a bad fire. She gets scared and he convinces her it's her fault too.
They hitch a ride on a train. He cuts off her long pigtail then abandons her.
She is helped by two nice but poor girls, one who is a hairdresser and fixes her hair and buys her new clothes.
Some how she winds up in a home run by a negligent and slightly abusive women who wears her hair in a beehive. She draws on a beauty mark.
There was a boy there - might have even been the same one, also nasty, he has a knife.
I believe there is a little bit in there about MLKJ.
She finds her way back home eventually.
I think the cover might be pinkish or yellow...the book title reminds me of the secret life of bees but that might just be because of the hairdo.
Read about seven years ago.