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Blooming: A Small-Town Girlhood

by Susan Allen Toth · 1981

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Slumber parties, swimming pools, boyfriends, lakeside summers, family holidays—Susan Allen Toth has captured it all in this delightful account of growing up in Ames, Iowa, in the 1950's. Charming, wise, funny, poignant, and true, Blooming celebrates an innocent and very American way of life.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Genre
coming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1950s1950sMore like thisLess of this
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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