- Fiction, Emotional problems, Abandoned children, Boarding schools
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
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Contemporary, earnest, classical in form and grave.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Melina Marchetta
- First published
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperTeen
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061431845
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