Crossing the Tracks

by Barbara Stuber

Book Overview

At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her mother's early death, Iris's father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor's elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416997032
• ISBN13: 9781416997030
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12