{"product_id":"the-girl-from-gladden-street-9780595451470","title":"The Girl from Gladden Street","description":"Sometimes, life plays little jokes. For Jeannette McDonald, growing up in a small town in West Virginia in the 1950s, life had three particular jokes in mind: naming her after a famous movie star, giving her a birthday just after Valentine's Day, and letting her grow up on a street named Gladden-a place as far from glad as Jeannette was from being a movie star.\u003cp\u003e Growing up is supposed to be a time of wonder and joy. For the girl on Gladden Street, the wonder was in discovering that when life plays jokes, anything is possible if you keep a healthy attitude. Ms. McDonald relates that some of life's harshest realities can lead to new awakenings and a better life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Peppered with a series of brief, episodic, coming-of-age vignettes that illustrate Ms. McDonald's life and much of the American landscape of the 1950s, The Girl from Gladden Street provides a reminder that some of our most valuable lessons come from events experienced during the most impressionable times of life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50412706038034,"sku":"9780595451470","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d8aa72f-4bb8-4017-9e7a-fce8567665a6.jpg?v=1729323270","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-girl-from-gladden-street-9780595451470","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}