CAN ONE UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP SAVE A LIFE?
Billie Standish has pretty much no one. Her parents are too caught up in their own lives, and the only two girls in town her age want nothing to do with her. When it looks like a nearby levee might break, and Billie’s elderly neighbor, Miss Lydia, is the only other person besides her family to stick around, a friendship is born out of circumstance. What happens during that time, in that empty town, is a tragedy that Billie can’t bear alone. Can the love of one woman nearing the end of her life save the life of a young woman just at the beginning of living hers?
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Sexual Content - 3/5
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Violence - 3/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 0/5
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Summary
Overall Billie Standish is a 12 year old girl who lives in a small town with no other girls her age. So she makes friends with a 70 year old lady who lives down the street. Billie goes over every day to help around the old lady's house and eat her cooking. this story is about growing up and difficult decisions. (Allen)
Violence Someone was shot, Billie was attacked and raped.
Language mild words like hell and damn
Sexual no sex scenes but Billie was raped and it is descriptive.