Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away.

To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight....

Author: Jennifer Lauck
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.44w x 1.15d
ISBN: 9780671042561

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 17
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 58250 / Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found


Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 01/01/2002 pg. 25

About the Author
Lauck, Jennifer: - Jennifer Lauck is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Blackbird and its sequel, Still Waters. She lives with her husband, son, and daughter in Portland, Oregon.