Dear Hank Williams (16 page)

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“Christy Ottaviano Books.”

Summary: Assigned to write to a pen pal, eleven-year-old Tate, who lives in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, writes to her favorite country singer, sharing her dream of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.

ISBN 978-0-8050-8022-3 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-62779-443-5 (e-book)
[1.   Family life—Louisiana—Fiction.   2.  Singing—Fiction.   3.  Williams, Hank, 1923–1953—Fiction.   4.  Louisiana—History—20th century—Fiction.   5.  Letters—Fiction.]   I.  Title.

PZ7.H74023De 2015       [Fic]—dc23        2014036808

eISBN 978-1-62779-443-5

First hardcover edition 2015

eBook edition April 2015