Before the Lark

A Spur Award Winner A Junior Literary Guild Selection Though twelve-year-old Jocey Royal no longer goes to school, she reads. And out of her books come dreams. These dreams are her life, because she has a hare lip and is convinced that no one will ever be her friend. Living with her washerwoman grandmother since her mother died and her father drifted away, Jocey talks Gram into moving to the Kansas farm her father abandoned. Included in Juvenile 10.