Full name: Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

Author: Jennifer Lauck Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction, Children Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780671042561 0671042564

With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenching and unforgettable, Blackbird will carry your heart away. To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home -- the place where she was loved, a blue-sky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mother's pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a child's will to survive takes flight.... Similar books: Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary Then Again by Diane Keaton Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer In Pieces by Sally Field The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall Extreme by Sharon Osbourne Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Let Me Finish by Roger Angell An Open Book by Monica Dickens What Remains by Carole Radziwill Show Me the Way by Jennifer Lauck Born Naked by Farley Mowat My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom