Walking with Miss Millie

from lilibrarian

Alice moves with her mother and brother from Ohio to Georgia in the mid 1960s to care for her ailing grandmother. Without realizing she picks up on a party line conversation, but then listens in. As punishment, her mother makes her go to the elderly neighbor whose privacy she invaded. Alice finds...

from bookwren

I loved the relationships in this story: the intergenerational one between Alice and Miss Millie; the sibling one of Alice and Eddie; the deaf and hearing one of Eddie and Pam. Miss Millie sums up the theme with her wise words: " ... you're doin' the best ya can. We're all in this great big world...

from authorjanebnight

Synopsis: Alice's parents have recently separated. Her mother has moved her and her brother to Georgia where she was raised to live with Alice's grandmother who is suffering from Alzheimer's. Alice is struggling with the transition. She wants to go home and she is struggling to make friends in he...