Twelve-year-old Peyton McKenzie isn't ready to share her widowed father with anyone8212;certainly not with her cigarette-smoking redheaded cousin Nora, who just rolled into sleepy Lytton, Georgia, this summer behind the wheel of a pink Thunderbird. But her father seems to like Nora, and prim Aunt Augusta hates her, which means she can't be all bad. And when Nora takes a job teaching the first integrated honors class at the local high school, it appears she might be staying forever. But there's something troubling Peyton's unorthodox cousin, something more than the outspoken town gossips' complaints about Nora's "unsouthern ways." When the truth comes to light, it will rock the segregated small community8212;and teach Peyton an unforgettable lesson about the enormous cost of love.
Thirteen years old and motherless, Peyton MacKenzie receives a few lessons in life when her rebellious hipster cousin, Nora Findlay, comes to town.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Conflicts + Dualities, Family + Friendship, Types of Characters, Stages of Life, Settings, Peoples + Cultures, General, Literary Genres + Types of Novels
- Publisher: Perennial
- Pages: 449
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: December 29, 2009
- Date Published: December 29, 2009
- Author: Anne Rivers Siddons