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Amateau, Gigi

A Certain Strain of Peculiar

264 pp. | Candlewick | April, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-3009-6 $16.99
(3) YA Thirteen-year-old Mary Harold has panic attacks because she's "afraid of dying." Hoping to control these episodes, she leaves her mother in Virginia, moving back to her grandmother's Alabama farm. Full of strange yet appealing characters--a girl who thinks she's a horse, a boy who is violently angry--this novel about identity and the meaning of home succeeds with Southern warmth and charm.
Reviewer: Chelsey Philpot

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