Billie of Fish House Lane
Meredith Sue Willis
(Author)
Description
Smart, sassy, and eleven years old, Billie Lee lives with her eccentric, multi-racial family in New Jersey. Then Billie's white cousin, Celia, shows up and changes everything. A sleepover at Celia's fancy suburban home releases a food of questions. How can Billie be Black but also White? How can she convince her best friend, Eutreece, that Billie hasn't betrayed their friendship? And when these kids get thrown together at a neighborhood barbecue, how can Billie and her friends accept one another long enough to solve the mystery of a neighbor named Neighbor, who has hidden something strange down by the canal? The answers to these questions challenge Billie far more than she ever thought possible.
Product Details
Price
$11.95
Publisher
Montemayor Press
Publish Date
February 15, 2006
Pages
114
Dimensions
5.5 X 0.3 X 8.5 inches | 0.38 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781932727029
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Meredith Sue Willis grew up in West Virginia and attended Bucknell University for two years before spending a year as a Volunteer in Service to America. She then took degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. Her fiction has been published by Charles Scribner's Sons, HarperCollins, West Virginia University Press, Mercury House, Ohio University Press and other presses. Her book of literary short stories, In the Mountains of America, was praised in the New York Times Book Review as an important lesson on the nature and function of literature itself. Her latest books include two collections of short stories, Out of the Mountains from Ohio University Press and Re-Visions from Hamilton Stone Editions; a book about writing from Montemayor Press called Ten Strategies to Write a Novel; and a young adult novel, Meli's Way, also from Montemayor. She now lives in New Jersey, a short train ride from New York City, where she is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at New York University's School of Continuing and Professional Studies. She is an occasional visiting writer-in-the-schools in New York and New Jersey, keeps a four season organic garden, and is active in local racial integration politics. To learn more about her and her books, see her web page at www.meredithsuewillis.com.