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Wish You Well

Wish You Well

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Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on theirgreat-grandmother's farm in the Virginia mountains.Suddenly Lou finds herself coming of age in a newlandscape, making her first true friend, and experiencingadventures tragic, comic, and audacious. But the forcesof greed and justice are about to clash over her newhome . . . and as their struggle is played out in a crowdedVirginia courtroom, it will determine the future of twochildren, an entire town, and the mountains they love.
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["Social life and customs" "Domestic fiction" "Bildungsromans" "Natural gas reserves" "Girls" "Land tenure" "Fiction" "Women landowners" "Family relationships" "Traffic accident victims" "Farm life" "Mountain life" "Traffic accident victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction" "Large type books" "Fiction coming of age" "Fiction family life" "Virginia fiction" "nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2015-06-07" "New York Times bestseller" "Fiction family life general" "General" "Fiction / General" "Family Life" "Historical - General" "Baldwin James - Prose & Criticism" "Popular American Fiction" "Unabridged Audio - Fiction/General"]

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