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Book Review of A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana

A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
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Haven Kimmel was born in Mooreland, Indiana in 1965. The town has 300 people in it. Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house. She was a small girl with big eyes and even bigger ears. In this funny way, Kimmel tells storys about small town America. Loaded with fine story telling, sharp wit, dead on observations, and moments of sheer joy. Her stright shooting portraint od her childhood gives us a heroine whos is wonderfully sweet ans sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.