Queenie Peavy
by:
Robert Burch (author)
The biggest troublemaker at school and the best shot in Georgia, Queenie Peavey feels she has a right to be angry when her father is thrown in jail. But what would happen if Queenie tried to behave for just one day?
The biggest troublemaker at school and the best shot in Georgia, Queenie Peavey feels she has a right to be angry when her father is thrown in jail. But what would happen if Queenie tried to behave for just one day?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140323054 (0140323058)
Publish date: August 1st 1987
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
Queenie Peavy is a puzzle to everyone but herself. SHE knows why she fires stones at anything and everything -- isn't she the best shot in Georgia? SHE knows why she is defiant with her teachers and deliberately mean to her schoolmates -- aren't they all against her? And Queenie doesn't care -- not ...
I recently came across an article describing the Phoenix Award and was intrigued. The Phoenix Award is for children books that didn't win any awards when they were first published but deserve some award. There's a twenty year wait period, for instance books recognized this year was published in 1992...
I recently came across an article describing the Phoenix Award and was intrigued. The Phoenix Award is for children books that didn't win any awards when they were first published but deserve some award. There's a twenty year wait period, for instance books recognized this year was published in 1992...