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*The Search for Belle Prater* by Ruth White- young readers book review
 
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Belle Prater's Boy
The Search for Belle Prater
by Ruth White
Ages 9-12 176 pages Yearling January 2007 Paperback    

Woodrow Prater and Gypsy Leemaster are cousins, but they couldn’t be more different if they shared no family connection at all. Woodrow’s mother and Gypsy’s mother are sisters; Woodrow grew up in the mountains way back in the woods with his mother and father, while Gypsy lives in town, an only child of Love and Amos Leemaster. Gypsy’s father died when she was young and her mother married the editor of the town’s only newspaper, Porter Dotson.

When Woodrow’s mother disappeared early one morning, Woodrow’s father finally decided that Woodrow needed to live with his grandparents. That meant that he and Gypsy would be next-door neighbors. In an earlier book, the reader learned of the adventures that led Woodrow and Gypsy to become best friends. Now readers are along for the ride as Woodrow, Gypsy, and their fortune-telling friend, Cassie, take them on an adventure to find Woodrow’s mother.

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