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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Picking up where A Girl Named Zippy left off, Haven Kimmel crafts a tender portrait of her mother, a modestly heroic woman who took the odds that life gave her and somehow managed to win. When we last saw Zippy, she was oblivious to the storm that was brewing in her home. Her mother, Delonda, had literally just gotten up off the couch and ridden her rickety bicycle down the road. Her dad was off somewhere, gambling or "working." And Zippy was lost...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Cassie waits for her gambling father to return home, her mother to move away from her position at the kitchen sink, for her fragile older sister to blossom out of her oddness, and for her own chance at a different life. Effortlessly living up to her Book Magazine moniker, the New Carson McCullers, Kimmel deftly handles this coming of age story and proves herself a master of genre.
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