cover image Smalltown Girl

Smalltown Girl

Cooney, John Cooney. Laurel Leaf Library, $2.75 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-440-98011-7

Collie Dutton goes from a note-writing first grader to a college-bound young woman in a first novel that PW believed would be cited as ""the cornerstone of a notable career. Cooney has uncommon talents, particularly the ability to evoke the stress-filled 1960s accurately but with bracing humor.'' (10-up)