E-audiobook
The linden tree
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433228834 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433228831 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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sound disc - Publisher: Ashland [Mich.] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2008.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 04:00:59. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Marguerite Gavin. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 57728 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Grief -- Fiction Family life -- Iowa -- Fiction Farm life -- Iowa -- Fiction Aunts -- Fiction Iowa -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction Historical fiction |
| Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
In 1948, nine-year-old Katy Sue's mother dies suddenly, and she and her family spend the next year trying to recover from their loss, assisted by her Aunt Katherine, who quits her teaching job to help out on their Iowa farm. - Findaway World Llc
When eleven-year-old Katy Sue loses her mother, Edna, to meningitis, she and her family must adjust to life without her. The rural farm in the 1940s provides a natural backdrop that is rhythmic and routine but unforgiving, even when a family member dies. The house's haunted emptiness is filled only when Aunt Katherine, Edna's youngest sister, comes to the family's aid, as does Jake, an ornithologist and family friend.Katy Sue, the youngest of the three children, struggles to define her place in the family and understand what the loss of her mother means for her now. With the guidance of her teacher, Mrs. Breton, Katy Sue begins to contemplate the shape of her family and the farm through drawing, a process that allows her to accept her father's soon-to-be wife, farm life without her mother, and, eventually, her own role within the family.
