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Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Copyright
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Holt, Kimberly Willis.
Dear Hank Williams / Kimberly Willis Holt. — First edition.
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Summary: Assigned to write to a pen pal, eleven-year-old Tate, who lives in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, writes to her favorite country singer, sharing her dream of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.
ISBN 978-0-8050-8022-3 (hardcover) • ISBN 978-1-62779-443-5 (e-book)
[1. Family life—Louisiana—Fiction. 2. Singing—Fiction. 3. Williams, Hank, 1923–1953—Fiction. 4. Louisiana—History—20th century—Fiction. 5. Letters—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H74023De 2015 [Fic]—dc23 2014036808
eISBN 978-1-62779-443-5
First hardcover edition 2015
eBook edition April 2015