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232 pp.
| Groundwood
| September, 2006
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Trade
ISBN 0-88899-732-9
$16.95
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Paper
ISBN 0-88899-733-7
$9.95
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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