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When Rabble Starkey's grandmother saw her for the first time, she said: "Look at them sea-green eyes. Look at that ginger-colored hair. Lord, Lord, trouble lies ahead for that child." So she and Rabble's mother, Sweet-Hosanna, gave her a Bible name, Parable Ann, to stave off what trouble they could. Rabble has had her share of trouble, nonetheless, by the time she is twelve. Her father left her and her fourteen-year-old mother when Rabble was one month old. The years have been hard and uncertain. More than anything, Rabble is looking for stability, and she may have found it now, living with…
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10 editions- Hardcover · English · 1987Houghton Mifflin · 192 pages · 9780395436073
- Other · English · 1999Tandem Library · 192 pages · 9780833521453
- Other · English · 1994Yearling · 9780440910060
- Other · English · 1990Lions · 192 pages · 9780006737643
- Other · English · 1989G.K. Hall · 283 pages · 9780816147762
- Other · English · 1988Dell · 192 pages · 9780440400561
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