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Listening for Leroy

by Betsy Hearne · 1998

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Growing up in rural Alabama in the 1950s, ten-year-old Alice has no one to talk to but Leroy, the black farm hand, but when Alice's doctor father moves the family to Tennessee, she has trouble fitting in and she sorely misses Leroy.

Themes
father daughterfather daughterMore like thisLess of thisraceraceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
ruralruralMore like thisLess of thisschoolschoolMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
medium · 210 pages

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