A Girl from Yamhill (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Beverly Atlee Bunn
- First Published: 1988
- Time of Work: 1916–1935
- Setting: Yamhill and Portland, Oregon
- Principal Characters: Beverly Bunn, Mable Atlee Bunn, Chester Lloyd Bunn, Gerhardt, Claudine Klum, William Atlee, Mary Frances Atlee
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Memory, Authors or writers, Autobiography, 1920’s, 1930’s, Farms, farmers, or farming, Small-town life
- Locales: Portland, OR
Form and Content
In A Girl from Yamhill: A Memoir, Beverly Cleary, the well-known author of children’s fiction, relates her memories of growing up in Oregon, her own childhood providing as engrossing a subject as that of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, Ellen Tebbits, or any of her other well-loved characters. The memoir is divided into two parts, each further divided into chapters that chronologically detail the events that shaped the author’s youth. Enhancing the richly detailed text are thirty photographs of Cleary and of her family, friends, and surroundings.
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