Belle Prater's Boy | Related Titles/Adaptations
Two of White's other novels, Sweet Creek Holler, an ALA Notable Children's Book, and Weeping Willows, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, are set in the same area of the Appalachian hills of western Virginia in the early 1950s. The former focuses on a female protagonist whose father is murdered and whose mother moves her and her sister to a shack. The latter relates the story of another young girl, Tiny Lambert, older than Gypsy, who learns about friendship and first love, but who also experiences incest. Local customs, legends, and language play a part in both. The setting...
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