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Roberts, Willo Davis

Buddy Is a Stupid Name for a Girl

218 pp. | Atheneum/Karl | March, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-689-81670-7 $$16.00
(4) 4-6 Eleven-year-old Buddy has more to worry about than her boyish nickname in this problem/mystery novel. Her father's inexplicable disappearance follows her mother's recent death, and Buddy is sent to live with aunts in Montana. There Buddy confronts dysfunctional family members as she tries to puzzle out secrets of the past that affect her present and possibly her future. Some stock characters and awkward plotting impede the story, whose resolution is a happy one.
Reviewer: Carolyn Shute

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