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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana

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When Haven Kimmel was once born in 1965 in Mooreland, Indiana, was once a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed “Zippy” for the best way she would bolt around the home, this small girl was once possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. On this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town The usa was once caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.

To three-year-old Zippy, it made perfect sense to strike a bargain with her father to keep her baby bottle–never mind that when she did, it was once the first time she’d ever spoken. In her nonplussed circle of relatives, Zippy has the easiest supporting cast: her beautiful yet dour brother, Danny, a seeker of the actual faith; her sweetly sensible sister, Lindy, who wins the local beauty pageant; her mother, Delonda, who dispenses wisdom from the corner of the couch; and her father, Bob Jarvis, who never met a bet he didn’t like.

Whether describing a serious case of chicken love, every other episode with the evil Edythe around the street, or the night Zippy’s dad borrowed thirty-six coon dogs and a raccoon to prove to the complaining neighbors just how quiet his two dogs were, Kimmel treats readers to a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and shy as she navigates the quirky adult world surrounding Zippy.

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