Graveyard Girl

During the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis in 1878, twelve-year-old Eli and Addie, a young child he befriends, struggle to survive with the help of Addie's ghost-mother and a girl who works at the busy graveyard.

First sentence: THE FEVER STRUCK THE POOR FIRST, REACHING OUT along the river to chill the people in the shanties of Pinchgut and Boxtown.

Year

1995

Language

English

Publisher

Eakin Press

Editions

4

Pages

134

ISBN

9781934645291

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