Ursula, under : a novel / by Ingrid Hill.
by Hill, Ingrid.
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BookPublisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004Edition: 1st ed.Description: 476 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1565123883.Subject(s): Racially mixed children -- Fiction | Interracial marriage -- Fiction | Finnish Americans -- Fiction | Chinese Americans -- Fiction | Rescue work -- Fiction | Mine accidents -- Fiction | Poor -- Fiction | Girls -- Fiction | Adventure fiction | Family life -- Fiction | Upper Peninsula (Mich.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Suspense fiction. | Domestic fiction.DDC classification: 813/.54 Summary: When a two-and-a-half-year-old girl falls down a mine shaft, the media provide hours of coverage of the rescue efforts. A viewer notes that the family lives in a mobile home and wonders why so much time is being "wasted" on the "trailer-trash kid." The novel answers this question by traveling back in time to visit young Ursula's ancestors who include a Chinese alchemist, a playmate of a Swedish queen, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer, and miner who died in a mine cave-in.
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"A Shannon Ravenel book."
Booklist, 5/1/2004
Library Journal, 5/1/2004
Publisher's Weekly, 5/24/2004
When a two-and-a-half-year-old girl falls down a mine shaft, the media provide hours of coverage of the rescue efforts. A viewer notes that the family lives in a mobile home and wonders why so much time is being "wasted" on the "trailer-trash kid." The novel answers this question by traveling back in time to visit young Ursula's ancestors who include a Chinese alchemist, a playmate of a Swedish queen, a Chautauqua troupe lecturer, and miner who died in a mine cave-in.
YA-Adult.
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