A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3) by Haven Kimmel Paperback Book

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Rent A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)

Author: Haven Kimmel

Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group

Published: Sep 2002

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs

Retail Price: $17.00

Pages: 304

Synopsis

The author offers a chronicle of growing up in a small town in America's heartland, offering portraits of her family and her encounters with the complexities of the adult world, romance, and small-town life during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Reviews

BookLender review by Patricia on 2010-02-04 08:01:26

Just finished reading this adorable book. So funny at times you snicker out loud. Small town America. Great read.