User:Lovebug7000/Belle Prater's Boy

Belle Praters boy was a 1997 Newberry award book by the childrens author Ruth White about two cousins who befriend each other to find a missing mother.

Summary
The book starts off by Belle Prater vanishing off the face of the earth.Weeks go on with search,but there is no trace of Belle Prater.Her son Woodrow,a cross eyed boy goes to live with his partly death grandmother and grandfather.Later on he is befriended by his cousin Gypsy Leemaster.They start to build a family relationship no one can pull apart as Woodrow quotes in the book.Later on,Woodrow develops and theory to his mothers disappearance.He tells his cousin Gypsy that she read this poem every night about letting go of life.4 weeks later they began a search party.Belle is seen from afar but leaves as soon as she is spotted.Woodrow starts to cry as Gypsy is comforting him.