Bibliograph

Finding Day's Bottom, Candice Ransom

Type

Label

Finding Day's Bottom, Candice Ransom

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Finding Day's Bottom

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Candice Ransom

Summary

After eleven-year-old Jane-Ery loses her father in a sawmill accident, Grandpap comes down from Salter's Mountain to live with her and her mother. To Jane-Ery's surprise, Grandpap's funny ways and strange stories bring her a comfort she never expected. He tells her about Day's Bottom, a place of light and wonderment" that has anything a body could ever want." Jane-Ery wonders: Could she find Daddy there? So begins her search for a new kind of understanding of her father's death. This gently told, beautifully rendered novel brings to life a time and place readers will come to love, Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1950's

Target audience

juvenile

Classification