# Back Home

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- Book: [Back Home](https://www.bookquiver.com/gloria-jean-pinkney/back-home) ([Back Home.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gloria-jean-pinkney/back-home.md))
- Authors: [Gloria Jean Pinkney](https://www.bookquiver.com/gloria-jean-pinkney), [Jerry Pinkney](https://www.bookquiver.com/jerry-pinkney)
- Publisher: puffin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4056-547-8
- Pages: 40
- Published: 1999-06-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Even though eight-year-old Ernestine lives with her family up North, " back home" is Lumberton, North Carolina, the place where she was born and where her mama grew up. From the moment she steps off the...