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Huser, Glen

Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen

232 pp. | Groundwood | September, 2006 | Trade ISBN 0-88899-732-9 $16.95 | Paper ISBN 0-88899-733-7 $9.95
(2) YA Tamara, a sarcastic fifteen-year-old foster child, is forced to befriend the crotchety, cigar-smoking, nursing home resident Miss Barclay for a school project. The theme of an unappreciated child finding solace through friendship with an equally sidelined old person is one of the most persistent in children's literature; Huser (Stitches) doesn't do anything new with it, but his affecting portrait of two outsiders is involving.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2006

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