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Wood, June Rae

About Face

273 pp. | Putnam | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-399-23419-5 $$19.99
(4) 4-6 Glory Bea Goode, a shy "townie" with a port-wine birthmark, and Marvalene, a "carnie" weary of her nomadic life, meet and share an intense three-day friendship in which both thirteen-year-olds come to value their own disparate lives and families. The rural Missouri setting is well realized and, although the novel is slow to start and somewhat overwritten, it reaches a satisfying conclusion.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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