Dovey Coe (15 page)

Jacket Illustration copyright © 2013 by Karl Kwasny/The Jacky Winter Group

The text of this book is set in Galliard.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dowell, Frances O'Roark.

Dovey Coe / written by Frances O'Roark Dowell.   p. cm.

Summary: When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.

ISBN 0-689-83174-9 (alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-4424-9030-7 (eBook)

[1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Mountain life—Fiction. 3. North Carolina—Fiction. 4. Deaf—Fiction. 5. Murder—Fiction. 6. Physically handicapped—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.D75455 Do 2000   [Fic]—dc21   99-46870