Belle Prater's Boy
Author: Ruth White
Desc: An alternate cover edition can be found here. When Belle Prater disappears Belle’s boy Woodrow comes to live with his grandparents in Coal Station Virginia. Woodrow’s cousin Gypsy is the town beauty but she has hidden sorrows and secrets of her own. She wonders how Woodrow can accept his mother’s disappearance when she’s never gotten over her father’s death. That’s when Woodrow tells Gypsy the secret about his mother.