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Carrick, Carol

Upside-Down Cake

64 pp. | Clarion | September, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-395-84151-8 $$14.00
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Paddy Bouma. The young narrator tells about the year between his ninth and tenth birthdays--the year his father is diagnosed with cancer and dies. The message is the story here, with denial, sorrow, guilt, anger, uncertainty, awkwardness, and healing all making a perfunctory appearance. Pencil illustrations add a quiet dignity.
Reviewer: Gail Hedges

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