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Strasser, Todd

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154 pp. | Holiday | December, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-8234-1394-2 $$16.95
(3) 4-6 A morally upright but unpopular middle schooler, Lauren is befriended and then betrayed by a more glamorous newcomer. The story is standard fodder, but what sets this novel apart is its voice--a second-person narrator, always addressing Lauren as "you"--which brings an eerie detachment to the telling, reinforcing Lauren's status as just-a-little-bit outside the mainstream.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

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