The Day That Elvis Came to Town

by Jan Marino

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Wanda feels betrayed when her parents' glamorous boarder doesn't introduce her to Elvis Presley, and it takes a near-tragedy to reunite them and to help her face the truth about her family and herself.

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Story about segregation in Georgia in the 1960's. Not sure why the title is what it is. Elvis did "come to town" but it was at the end of the book and didn't really play into the storyline.

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The Day That Elvis Came to Town

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Fiction and Literature, Teen, Children's Books, Young Adult, Tween
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PZ7 .M33884 .DLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres

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