| #1152115 in Books | Algonquin Books | 2009-09-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x1.00 x5.50l,.80 | File type: PDF | 352 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Illusory facades over troubled lives|By D. Cloyce Smith|Little Katie Burns, whose distinguishing physical feature is a wine-colored birthmark on her face, suffers from a tense relationship with her staid, seemingly conservative mother. Like many young girls, she doesn't think of herself as beautiful and she often wishes she had a different mother and imagines, half-seriously, t|From Publishers Weekly|Kate Burns, who goes through adolescence painfully aware of the port-wine birthmark on her face, envies her best friend's flamboyant mother and her beautiful, racy cousin Angela without recognizing their vulnerabilities. "McCorkle controls
Ferris Beach is a place where excitement and magic coexist. Or so Mary Katherine "Katie" Burns, the only child of middle-aged Fred and Cleva Burns, believes. Shy and self-conscious, she daydreams about Ferris Beach, where her beautiful cousin, Angela, leads a romantic, mysterious life.
It is the early 1970s, and when the land across the road from the Burns's historic house is sold to developers, Misty Rhodes―also from Ferris Beach―and her flamboyant pare...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ferris Beach | Jill McCorkle. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
