| Belle Prater's Boy | |
| Author: | Ruth White |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Children's novel |
| Publisher: | FSG |
| Release Date: | 1996 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages: | 208 |
| Isbn: | 9780374306687 |
Belle Prater's Boy (1996) is a young adult novel by Ruth White that tells the story of 12-year-old Gypsy and her cousin Woodrow Prater, whose mother Belle Prater had mysteriously disappeared one morning. When Woodrow — the titular Belle Prater's boy — comes to town, she quickly befriends him in the hope that she will find out more about his mother's disappearance. The novel is set in 1950s Western Virginia.[1] Belle Prater's Boy was named a Newbery Honor book in 1997,[2] and a 1996 Boston Globe - Horn Book Awards Honor Book for Fiction[3]