- Fiction, Runaways, Self-perception, Friendship
13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew 7 inches, and she has to put up with a woman who plys Martha's lonely father with food and opinions about how 13 year-old girls should behave.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Alice Hoffman
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 84
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press, Tandem Library, FollettBound Platinum
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439256353
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