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LaMarche, Una

Don't Fail Me Now

276 pp. | Penguin/Razorbill | September, 2015 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59514-817-9 $17.99
(3) YA With their drug-addicted mother back in jail, seventeen-year-old Michelle tends to her early-teen-surly, diabetic sister Cass and sweet but disruptive little brother Denny. Michelle is ambushed at work by the stepbrother of her half-sister, and the unlikely quintet seeks the girls' deadbeat--and dying--biological father. Issues of race and socioeconomic status are overcome for the sake of family in this memorable road-trip novel.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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