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Title	:	Crossing the Tracks
Author	:	Barbara Stuber
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 272 pages
Published	:	July 6th 2010 by Margaret K. McElderry Books (first published June 18th 2010)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Fiction

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At fifteen, Iris is a hobo of sorts -- no home, no family, no direction. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoe stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unbeknownst to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. Suddenly Iris is alone, stuck in gritty rural Missouri, too far from her only friend Leroy and too close to a tenant farmer, Cecil Deets, who menaces the neighbors and, Iris suspects, his own daughter.

Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her shell, tragedy strikes. Iris must find the guts and cunning to take aim at the devil incarnate and discover if she is really as helpless—or as hopeless—as she once believed.

Lyrical, yet humorous, Barbara Stuber’s debut novel is the unforgettable story of a girl who struggles to cast aside her long-standing grief and doubt and, in the span of one dusty summer, learn to trust, hope, and—ultimately—love.

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ISBN:	1416997032 (ISBN13: 9781416997030)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Missouri(United States)
Literary Awards:	William C. Morris YA Debut Award Nominee (2011)

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The author, Barbara Stuber is a college friend and this is her first novel. I loved the story! Iris is a strong girl who learns about herself and her mother after being sent away by her father. I am so impressed with her writing.

Finished this a week ago and forgot to log in here :) Written by a local author who came to our book club, is absolutely charming, and who talked about the fine art connections to the novel - very interesting. Having said that, I'm just not sure this should be a YA novel. While the themes are relevant to teens (first period, first love, father taking a new wife) and not juveniles (incest theme), I don't think that many teens are interested in reading historical fiction of this nature. If my book

John Griffith "Jack" London, an American author, journalist, and social activist, has quoted remarkably about "HOBOs", i.e. homeward-bound; "They were hobos, and with every word they uttered... It all spelled adventure."Let me be clear one thing, homeless people are not exactly "hobos", "hobos" are more interesting with lots of experience in life. "Hobos" have got a direction in their life and generally people coin "Hobo" in a negative way, but it's actually a positive word! The author, Barbara

Loved this book. Read it 3-4 year ago and still remember it. It's a nice, quiet read; a tale of a coming of age story for our young heroine. Don't worry. She finds her place in the world.

Great story by a local author. Met her at the Nelson last Saturday for a tour of the art that influenced some of her descriptions of characters and settings. Very interesting.

What a beautiful book. The writing is impeccable, the characters are superbly real. I love Iris and Mrs. Nesbitt and Dr. Nesbit and Leroy and I hope Barbara Stuber has her next book finished and it comes out tomorrow. Even the bad people are human.

While there are many things I find bewildering about this book--it is, as it acknowledges, kind of morbid, for instance--it is exceedingly well-crafted and well worth a read, if you don't read exclusively feel-good stories. It is also BLESSEDLY SHORT. (Which is, I suppose, part of the well-craftedness.) In theme, setting, characters, etc, it's sort of a logical YA followup to Richard Peck's country historical fiction books (A Year Down Yonder etc).Recommended generally if you aren't bothered by