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327 pp.
| Feiwel |
October, 2011 |
TradeISBN 978-0-312-61254-2$17.99
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4-6
Twelve-year-old Ember's losses--material and emotional--are poignantly portrayed in this tale of a family victimized by arson, probably because they practice Wicca. Ember's relationships with her siblings and her desperation to keep the family's homelessness a secret as they spend their summer living in a vacation campground are utterly convincing. Dooley's balance between the pain of poverty and the pull of hope is exquisite.