- Alcoholism, Family problems, Fathers, Fiction
Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
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Earnest, spare, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Natasha Friend, Natasha Friend
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Scholastic Press, Paw Prints, Scholastic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780439899215
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