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Georgia Rules

by Nanci Turner Steveson

Ages: 9+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Harper/HarperCollins

ISBN: 978-0-06-237457-8

Keywords: Family, Rural Life, Divorce, Disabilities, Grief, Alcoholism, PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

When Maggie inherits her estranged father's farm, her mother moves them to Vermont where an unusual family shows them that certain rules are made to be broken.