TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - German Americans
KW - taxidermy
KW - immigrants
KW - senior citizens
KW - twins
KW - nuns
KW - eugenics
KW - county fairs
KW - priests
KW - Protestants
AU - Jack Gantos
AB - Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her Westmoreland County hometown when she was seven and learned a dark secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh family curse of excessive love for one’s mother.
C1 - 1950s-60s
C3 - Allegheny Mountains; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Westmoreland County; Greensburg; Westmoreland County Courthouse; Seton Hill University; Mt. Pleasant; Mt. Pleasant Twp.
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult; Horror; Gothic; Comedy
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Seton Hill University is referred to as Seton Hill College, as it was then known.
N2 - Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her Westmoreland County hometown when she was seven and learned a dark secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh family curse of excessive love for one’s mother.
PB - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
PP - New York
PY - 2006
RN - Jack Gantos (1951— ), born and raised in Norvelt, Westmoreland County, earned his BFA and MA at Emerson College. The author of many children's books, he is best known for his fictional character Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Gantos lives in Boston.
EP - 185 p.
TI - The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
ER -