- Families, Family, Foster home care, Orphans
A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
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Earnest, classical in form, spare and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Patricia Reilly Giff
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 166
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Wendy Lamb Books, Listening Library (Audio)
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786250943
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