A Girl Named Zippy : Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana (Paperback)

from knitwit2

I love to read memoirs , but I find it rare to run across one so happy. I laughed out loud so many times that I lost count. Out young heroine Zip is at once precocious and dense, she is innocent and conniving. I'd love to meet her as an adult she must be a blast to hang out with.

from miaclair

This is the story of Zippy, an imaginative, precocious girl who grew up in the small town of Mooreland, Indiana during the 1960's and 1970's. She tells stories about her family members, childhood friends, eccentric neighbors, and various pets. Through it all, Zippy has a resilience of spirit and ...

from BookConcierge

This is a memoir of a happy, if imperfect, childhood. Kimmel has a gift for putting the reader into the mind of an 8-year-old. We learn about the evil old lady across the street, the pharmacist who can't be bothered with kids reading comic books in his store, the horrible neighbors with a sadisti...

from ethel55

What a gem of a memoir, I can't believe it had escaped my notice all these years. Haven Kimmel writes of "growing up small" in a very small town in Indiana, where the population always remains at 300, someone always replacing one who leaves. Her memories are funny, bittersweet and strikingly accu...

from karieh

OK - this is only the second of Haven Kimmel's books that I've read - and I have to say that she's rocketing to the top of my favorite authors chart. "The Used World" was the first book of hers that I read and loved and now I can say that I like her fiction AND non-fiction. I remember when "A Gir...