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Where the Lilies Bloom portrays poverty in a realistic light, neither glossing over its ugliness nor dwelling unnecessarily on any of its horrors. Mary Call Luther has promised her father that the ...
Jun 3, 2010 · Internet Archive. Language. English. In the Great Smoky Mountains region, a fourteen-year-old girl struggles to keep her family together after their father dies. A Signet book. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate. 2010-06-03 20:02:58.
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When Kiser Pease suffers a near-fatal illness, Mary Call sees her chance. She visits him in the hospital and convinces him that she can heal him with mountain medicine. He believes her, and she ...
Where the Lilies Bloom is a young adult novel co-authored by Vera and Bill Cleaver, published in 1969 by Harper Teen. The book was a finalist in the National Book Awards for Children’s books in 1970. The story centers around the Luthers, an Appalachian sharecropper family consisting of a widower father, Roy Luther, and his four children ...
While Vera and Bill Cleaver were best known and loved for Where the Lilies Bloom, they enjoyed a prolific writing career. Their other titles include: Delpha Green & Company, Dust of the Earth, I Would Rather Be a Turnip, The Kissimmee Kid, The Mimosa Tree, Trial Valley, and The Whys and Wherefores of Littabelle Lee.
- Vera Cleaver, Bill Cleaver
