The True Life Story of Isobel Roundtree

by Kathleen Wallace King

Book Overview

On the night before President Kennedy is shot, Clematis Roundtree walks out--and 11-year-old Isobel knows her momma is never coming back. Ignored by her grieving father, Isobel assumes the task of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874832632
• ISBN13: 9780874832631
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: August House Publishers
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Caulfield Move Over

The honesty of the narrator, Isobel Roundtree, never falters. This is a book read in a day without putting it down. I definitely hear echoes of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, the world from a wise child's point of view and a book not written for children. Recommended.