Softcover copy of "Like A Sister" by Janice Daugharty, with Daugharty's notes.

Synopsis: "It is 1956, and thirteen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who just isn't interested in kids. Taking charge of her life, Sister befriends a kindly neighbor named Willa, who appears to be everything a mother should be. But when a respected and powerful man in town notices that Sister is blossoming-unsupervised-into q9uite a young woman, trouble starts to brew. Willa soon steps in to intervene, and Sister thinks she may have found salvation. But within the pages of 'Like A Sister,' things are never what they seem. Depicting a vulnerable, heartbreaking, and richly Southern world, 'Like A Sister' allows readders to gaze through the eyes of a young girl whom they will not soon forget."