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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 3/6/02, 5:30 PM

Hi,
I have a patron looking for books (read a like) just like Wish You Well by
David Baldacci I really am having a hard time finding this. Its sort of
inspirational, coming of age, feel good type of book aaaggghhh help me
sandra

FROM: Candice Michalik <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/6/02, 7:18 PM

I wonder if "Ellen Foster" by Kaye Gibbons might be a
readalike for "Wish You Well." Both have feisty young
girl main characters.


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Lynchburg Public Library
Lynchburg, VA
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FROM: "Carolyn O'Donnell" <[removed]@ahml.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/6/02, 7:39 PM

While they are somewhat different from "Wish You Well" in plot aspects - I thought "Alice's Tulips" and "The Persian Pickle Club" by Sandra Dallas were similar to it in feeling.

Carolyn O'Donnell
Advisory Services Department
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
500 N. Dunton
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
847.870.4117

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@adelphia.net>
REC'D: 3/6/02, 7:50 PM

Lee Smith's novels, set in Appalachia:

Black Mountain Breakdown (1981) - set in the mountains of
Appalachia, the novel traces the arc of Crystal's evolution from a
romantic, daydreaming girl of 12 to an hysterically catatonic woman
of 32.
Fair and Tender Ladies (1988) - This epistolary novel chronicles the
life of its indomitable heroine, Ivy Rowe, a tenacious mountain
woman who remains cussedly dedicated to the ideal of perseverance,
despite the many formidable obstacles she faces.

The Christmas Letters (1996) - In the epistolary style of _Fair and

Tender Ladies_. The novella opens with Birdie Puckett writing

to her mother and sister about life on a North Carolina farm in 1944.

In parts 2 and 3, Birdie's daughter and granddaughter continue the

letter-writing tradition that spans and links the three generations.

The focus shifts from Birdie to her daughter Mary and her life as a

new mother, later as a woman whose marriage has turned sour, and finally as

a Peace Corps volunteer.


Also, William Gay's Provinces of Night (2000):
Set in 1952, this is the coming of age story of Fleming Bloodworth
of Grinder's Creek, Tennessee. In the novel's opening pages, as the
modern world -- in the guise of the Tennessee Valley Authority --
begins to intrude upon valley life, Fleming's grandfather, E.F.
Bloodworth, returns to his home after 20 years of roaming the
countryside as a bluegrass musician with a magnetic personality and
a penchant for violence. Fleming's father, Boyd, leaves for Detroit
to hunt for his wife and kill the lover she has run off with.
Fleming's uncles, Warren and Boyd, seethe with anger and resentment
against their father. Fleming, an observant boy who writes magazine
stories that are returned unread and unpublished because they are
handwritten, befriends his aged grandfather and struggles to escape
the family's history of violence and frustrated ambitions. Dark, but
often comic, and in the end, optimistic about one's ability to
change one's fate. [His first novel, The Long Home (1999), was darker.]


~ Molly Wms.
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Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library (Maine)
daily library weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm
[removed]@adelphia.net

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 3/7/02, 8:23 AM

A favorite of mine that might fit this description, though an oldie, is one
I've recommended to this list before: Weldon Hill's "Lonesome Traveller."
Clem Marlow, just turned 14, sets out from his foster home in NE Oklahoma to
visit his mother, who is in a New Mexico sanatorium. The experiences he has
and the people he meets during his trek certainly qualify as "coming-of-age"
contributors, and the end of the story is a feel-gooder.

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