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Balliett, Blue

Hold Fast

278 pp. | Scholastic | March, 2013 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-29988-6 $17.99
(4) 4-6 When her library worker father doesn't come home from work one day, Early and her mother and baby brother are left to the Chicago shelter system--and to solve the mystery of dad's disappearance. It's an adequate mystery, but too-frequent verbal flourishes and platitudes ("Early learned from her dad that a dictionary is a powerful and underestimated kind of book") are distracting.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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