Billie Standish Was Here

Written by Nancy Crocker

As floodwaters rise, a lonely girl forms an unlikely friendship with her elderly neighbor.

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288 pages· 820L· AR 5 · 9 AR pts

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Bookroo's summary

Billie Standish has almost no one: her parents are wrapped up in their own lives, and the only girls her age want nothing to do with her. When a nearby levee threatens to break and the town empties out, her elderly neighbor Miss Lydia is the only other person who stays. Their friendship grows, and when a tragedy strikes that Billie can't bear alone, Miss Lydia's love may be what saves her.

From the publisher

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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