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The Kaleidoscope Season

Sharon Downing Jarvis

Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1992

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Novel
Mormons-Fiction
Set in a small town in southern Georgia 1948, the book centers around Emily Jean Knowles, a soon-to-be-twelve-year-old girl who lives with Granna. Granna is a staunch Southern Baptist who has raised her granddaughter to be a well-mannered young lady, but Emily has retained much of her childhood "activity" and "inquisitiveness." The story is full of interesting characters like Emily Jean's favorite Uncle Bob; her maternal grandmother, whom she meets for the first time; her best friend, Starlett; and her favorite teacher, Miss Mary Afton. Uncle Bob comes home to live and work for the summer, and he and Emily Jean separately undertake journeys of religious discovery. [publisher's blurb]
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BX 8688.3 .J298k
346p.
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