I am looking for a blue paperback yearling book that was published between 1980 and 1984. The book is about a girl (possibly named Adelaide) who lives with her spinster aunts in a big old house. She and the house girl go up in the attic and find a trunk belonging to the girl’s dead mother and there they unravel the mysteries of the mother’s past. Throughout the book, the main character has memories or possibly fantasies about her mother’s life.
The cover was blue with a picture of two girls in an attic. One girl was caucasian with black hair and a dress. The other girl was African American and and had some type of kerchief in her hair.
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I believe this is Secret Lives by Berthe Amoss. Here’s a link on GoodReads
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6515252-secret-lives
I hope I can post that here.
I seriously just found the title of this book tonight, after many late night google searches with what little I remembered. Your post came up on one of those searches and gave me even more info, thank you! Hope this helps!!
I am so grateful – that is the book that I was looking for!!! I can’t wait to share it with my own daughters who loves books as much as me!