- Runaways, Death, Families, Juvenile Fiction
From a debut author comes a story of finding oneself in a place all too familiar. After Dulcie Morrigan Jones's dad dies, her mom decides they need to find a new life in California.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Paul Acampora
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Recorded Books, Puffin
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781436231824
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First sentence
“IF THIS WERE A MOVIE, I'd probably have to kill off my father in the very first scene.”
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