A Blue-Eyed Daisy
an amazing year
Ellie Farley's father, Okey, drinks too much, mostly because he hasn't been able to work since he was injured in a mining accident. He hasn't been able to hunt, either, so it's strange when he brings home a hunting dog, a beagle named Bullet.
But Bullet is only the first odd thing that happens to Ellie the year she's eleven. She sees a favorite uncle go off to war; a boy in her class has a fit in the middle of geography and another is accidentally killed while target shooting; and Okey drives his Chevy pickup off the mountain, with near-tragic consequences. But still Ellie manages the ordinary pleasures of making a best friend and getting kissed for the first time — it's no wonder she confides to Bullet on her twelfth birthday, "Some year."
- Author
- Cynthia Rylant
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780689844959
- Genres
- fiction, juvenile, childrens
- Release date
- 2001
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