Jemmy
A Young Adult novel about a modern-day Indian girl. Teenaged Jemmy Stott is half Indian and half white. Her mother dies early in the story and Jemmy is thereby forced to leave school to keep house and care for her younger siblings and her alcoholic father. Stranded one day in a snowstorm, Jemmy is taken into the home of the Chapmans, an artistic couple who look after Jemmy and teach her to paint. Eventually Jemmy regains her self-confidence and begins to recover from the loss of her mother.

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1. \Jem"my\, a. [Cf. {Gim}, and {Gimp}, a.]
   Spruce. [Slang, Eng.] --Smart.
   

2. \Jem"my\, n.
   1. A short crowbar. See {Jimmy}.
   2. A baked sheep's head. [Slang, Eng.] --Dickens.