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Elvis, me, and the lemonade stand summer / Leslie Gentile.

By: Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : DCB Young Readers, [2021]Description: 202 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781770866157
Subject(s): Awards:
  • Silver Birch Fiction nominee, 2022.
Summary: "It's the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But not eleven-year-old Truly Bateman - because she knows Elvis is alive and well and living in the Eagle Shores Trailer Park. Maybe no one ever thought to look for him on an indigenous reserve on Vancouver Island. It's a busy summer for Truly. Though her mother is less of a mother than she ought to be, and spends her time drinking and smoking and working her way through new boyfriends, Truly is determined to raise as much money for herself as she can through her lemonade stand ... and to prove that her cool new neighbour is the one and only King of Rock 'n' Roll. And when she can't find motherly support in her own home, she finds sanctuary with Andy El, the Salish woman who runs the trailer park"--
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Juv Fic (pbk) Flesherton Branch Shelves J FIC Genti (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 32241001137324
Juv Fic (pbk) Markdale Branch Shelves J FIC Genti (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 33436003151229

"It's the summer of 1978 and most people think Elvis Presley has been dead for a year. But not eleven-year-old Truly Bateman - because she knows Elvis is alive and well and living in the Eagle Shores Trailer Park. Maybe no one ever thought to look for him on an indigenous reserve on Vancouver Island. It's a busy summer for Truly. Though her mother is less of a mother than she ought to be, and spends her time drinking and smoking and working her way through new boyfriends, Truly is determined to raise as much money for herself as she can through her lemonade stand ... and to prove that her cool new neighbour is the one and only King of Rock 'n' Roll. And when she can't find motherly support in her own home, she finds sanctuary with Andy El, the Salish woman who runs the trailer park"--

Silver Birch Fiction nominee, 2022.

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