Betty By Tiffany McDaniel
Betty By Tiffany McDaniel Betty Carpenter is one of eight children (two who die young) and grows up with her family in poverty in Breathed, Ohio. She is part Cherokee and her father teaches her all about the traditional ways. Like him, she is intensely interested in the natural world. She is also a budding writer. Betty lives with her parents (Landon and Alka) in a run down house after moving around the country for a time. Her much older brother (Leland) is in the army, but her other siblings live at home, two older sisters (Fraya, the motehring type, and Flossie, the budding star), and two younger brothers (Trustin, the artist, and Lint, a stuttering and fearful rock collector). In her household, Betty looks different than her siblings. She is dark and looks like her father. She is fully aware of this difference and it plagues her. She has to learn to accept herself and to make a way for herself. While growing up Betty has to navigate those who will discriminate against h...