Forced to quit school to take care of her motherless family, Jemmy Stott is befriended by a well-known painter and his wife who tell the young Chippewa girl that she has great potential as an artist
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ippewa mother is dead, seventeen-year-old Jemmy's alcoholic father has insisted that she quit school to care for her younger siblings. But on her way home on her last day of school, she gets caught in a fierce snowstorm, and is rescued by Otis and Ann Chapman, who have moved to rural Minnesota from the city. Otis is a well-known painter, and he sees in Jemmy the model he needs to complete a mural of the Maiden of Eagle Rock. Jemmy soon finds that the Chapmans have rescued her in more ways than one...and that there's a whole world outside of her family's dreary existence, a world she can conquer, if only she has the courage to fight....
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- PublisherAtheneum
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0689501307
- ISBN 13 9780689501302
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages175
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