Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Billie forms a friendship with Miss Lydia born out of circumstance, but when Billie faces tragedy, Miss Lydia takes matters into her own hands. Billie Standish is 11 years old in 1968 Cumberland, Missouria town where 'nothing much bigger than a silent fart can get past the neighbors.' As relentless rain threatens the nearby levees, the town's residents evacuateall but Billie, her parents, Miss Lydia across the street, and Miss Lydia's grown son Curtis. They are-except for their elderly neighbor Miss Lydia.
Can the love of one woman nearing the end of her life save the life of a young woman just at the beginning of living hers? As relentless rain raises the nearby river, Billie thinks she and her parents are the only people staying in their town and face the threat of flood. What happens during that time, in that empty town, is a tragedy that Billie can' t bear alone. When it looks like a nearby levee might break, and Billie' s elderly neighbor, Miss Lydia, is the only other person besides her family to stick around, a friendship is born out of circumstance. Her parents are too caught up in their own lives, and the only two girls in town her age want nothing to do with her.
CAN ONE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP SAVE A LIFE? Billie Standish has pretty much no one.
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