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Baker, Julie

Up Molasses Mountain

211 pp. | Random/Lamb | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-385-72908-1 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-385-90048-1 $$17.99
(3) 4-6 Clarence is an outcast in his small West Virginia mining town due to his harelip. He secretly cares for an escaped circus monkey and tells a compassionate neighborhood girl. Told in alternating first-person chapters and set during the struggle days of the union, the novel effectively balances the refuge of the children's unlikely friendship with the violence of the strike-related events.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom

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