![]() ![]() ![]() Greene used first-person vignettes to tell the rural Arkansas adventures of eleven-year-old African-American farmgirl Beth Lambert and her crush and rival, Philip Hall, the boy from the next farm. I Reckon Maybe., in Pocahontas, while the book also references Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County) and Hardy. While her first book, Summer of My German Soldier (1973), was set in her native Parkin, she set the story of her second novel, Philip Hall Likes Me. Her family moved to Memphis when she was thirteen, but she returned to Arkansas for summer camp at Hardy (Sharp County), passing through Pocahontas (Randolph County) on the way. Greene was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 28, 1934, and spent much of her childhood in Parkin (Cross County), where her parents owned a dry-goods store she clerked there as she grew older. It won a Newbery Honor Award in 1975, and, in 1977, it was the runner-up for the Charlie May Simon Children’s Book Award. is a juvenile novel published in 1974, written by Bette Evensky Greene and illustrated by Charles Lilly. ![]()
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