Belle Prater's Boy
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| Author | Ruth White |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's novel |
| Publisher | FSG |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 208 |
| ISBN | 9780374306687 |
Belle Prater's Boy (1996) is a young adult novel by Ruth White that tells the story of 12-year-old Gypsy and her cousin Woodrow Prater, whose mother Belle Prater had mysteriously disappeared one morning. When Woodrow – the titular Belle Prater's boy – comes to town, she quickly befriends him in the hope that she will find out more about his mother's disappearance. The novel is set in 1950s Western Virginia.[1] Belle Prater's Boy was named a Newbery Honor book in 1997,[2] and a 1996 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Fiction.[3]
