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Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows
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9781492341383
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9781492341383
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Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows
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Emma Starkey is a spunky little girl trying hard to be charitable and virtuous. But her calculated attempts have a way of backfiring with tumultuous consequences in this poignant story of small-town life in 1920s Kansas. As Emma's cranky grandmother observes, "Even sunflowers cast shadows." Weaving through four years of Emma's engaging disasters is her chaotic friendship with a transplanted Yankee whiz kid, Margaret Drummond, whose family arrives one summer burdened with a heavy secret and a flair for the dramatic. Emma's and Margaret's brothers and sisters become friends, too, but their screwball pursuits and youthful infatuations spawn rivalries that threaten to split them apart. Perilous--even tragic--turns await, along with powerful and unexpected lessons about friendship, jealousy, compassion, and the curious world of grown-ups. Cornucopia, Kansas, is filled with colorful crackpots, bullies, and quiet heroes. In their stories, and most especially Emma's, Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows recaptures a faded moment when innocence could still be lost grudgingly.
| Author: Douglas Armstrong |
| Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Publication Date: Oct 30, 2010 |
| Number of Pages: 316 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 149234138X |
| ISBN-13: 9781492341383 |
