Belle Prater's Boy: (Newbery Honor Book)

Ruth White's Belle Prater's Boy is the Newbery Honor Book about two kids who form a life-changing friendship while unraveling a mysterious disappearance in 1950s Western Virginia.

“An admirable, stirring book.” ―The New York Times Book Review

Around 5:00 a.m. on a warm Sunday morning on October 1953, my Aunt Belle left her bed and vanished from the face of the earth.

Everyone in Coal Station, Virginia, has a theory about what happened to Belle Prater, but twelve-year-old Gypsy wants the facts...