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With her mother completely absorbed in a new romance, thirteen-year-old Sissie has become a surrogate mother to her a younger siblings, and her concerned neighbors try to intervene on her behalf, with surprising results. By the author of Dark of the Moon. Reprint.
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<p>It is 1956, and thirteeen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who isn't interested in kids. Taking charge of her life, Sister befriends a kindly neighbor named Willa, who appears to be everything a mother should be. But when a respected and powerful man in town notices that Sister is blossoming -- unsupervised -- into quite a young woman, trouble starts to brew. Willa soon steps in to intervene, and Sister thinks she may have found salvation. But within the pages of <em>Like a Sister</em>, things are never what they seem.</p><br><p>Depicting a vulnerable, heartbreaking, and richly Southern world, <em>Like a Sister</em> allows readers to gaze through the eyes of a young whom they will not soon forget. </p><br>
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