Belle Prater s Boy Novel Ties Study Guide

By Ruth White

To kill a mockingbird

By Robert Mulligan, Alan J. Pakula, Horton Foote, Gregory Peck

A girl growing up in a small Alabama town must face bigotry and hatred when her lawyer father defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.

Weeping Willow

By Ruth White

Belle Prater's boy

By Ruth White

When Woodrow's mother suddenly disappears, he moves to his grandparents' home in a small Virginia town where he befriends his cousin and together they find the strength to face the terrible losses...

Memories of Summer

By Ruth White

In 1955, thirteen-year-old Lyric finds her whole life changing when her family moves from the hills of Virginia to a town in Michigan and her older sister Summer begins descending into mental illness.

Tadpole

By Ruth White

In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.

The search for Belle Prater

By Ruth White

In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and i...

Way Down Deep

By Ruth White

Weeping Willow

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Sweet Creek Holler

By Ruth White