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Days of Little Texas R. A. Nelson Hardcover | Knopf Books for Young Readers | 978-0-375-85593-1 | July 2009 | $16.99 | Ages 12 Up Hardcover Library Binding | Knopf Books for Young Readers | 978-0-375-95593-8 | July 2009 | $19.99 | Ages 12 Up

Ronald Earl Pettway, a boy-wonder preacher, was only ten years old when Miss Wanda Joy named him 'Little Texas' and made him a star on the evangelical revival circuit.  He preaches and heals people while Miss Wanda Joy collects money from the sinful and the afflicted and prepares her Church of the Hand for the next town.  Now sixteen, 'Little Texas' experiences his first encounter with love.  Only the girl that he loves is the ghost of a girl in a blue dress that appears in his night dreams. Miss Wanda Joy is troubled by the changes in 'Little Texas' and takes him to Vanderloo Plantation where she schedules him to preach on Devil Hill. He is greeted by a flash of blue, and a warning from the owner's wife.  What is the meaning behind a revival meeting at Vanderloo?  What is Miss Wanda Joy trying to prove?  And, who is the girl in the blue dress?

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