Skip to content

Whistling past the graveyard

by Susan Crandall

Cover of Whistling past the graveyard
Popularity 11

Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby. In 1963, determined to get to Nashville to find her mother, nine-year-old spitfire Starla runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home. The plot contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.

Race relationsFriendshipRunaway childrenHistoryGirlsFictionBildungsromansMothersGrandmothersFiction, coming of ageFriendship, fictionMississippi, fiction