Her Father's Daughter (Hardcover, Turtleback School & Library ed.)

The rich landscape of Oregon's logging country in the 1930s provides fertile ground for Maggie Morrison to grow up, but it is not a gentle world she lives in. There are good times, when she bests her brother at boxing or enjoys a rare piece of candy. But there are bad times, too, when her father comes home smelling of alcohol, when her mother cries. As she matures from a feisty tomboy of 8 1/2 to a spirited young woman of 14, Maggie buys her first bra, discovers that a best friend can also be a boyfriend, and struggles with the leering advances of older men. The only constant in her life of endless new homes and new faces is her everemerging sense of herself.

Unadorned and beautifully written, Her Father's Daughter tells the story of a girl who faces life with the spirit of a fighter and the soul of an artist.