Franny Parker /
Hannah Roberts McKinnon.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
- 149 p ; 22 cm.
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Through a hot, dry Oklahoma summer, twelve-year-old Franny tends wild animals brought by her neighbors, hears gossip during a weekly quilting bee, befriends a new neighbor who has some big secrets, and learns to hope.