INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Mass, Wendy

13 Gifts

(3) 4-6 After getting suspended from school, Tara is sent to stay with relatives. They live in a strange town where an eccentric shopkeeper demands Tara obtain thirteen seemingly random items before her thirteenth birthday. As Tara completes the list, she learns surprising secrets about the townspeople. Her rewarding journey from bystander to active participant shows communities can be built in the strangest of ways.

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