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Lurie, April

Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn

197 pp. | Delacorte | October, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-385-72942-1 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-385-90066-X $$17.99
(4) 4-6 Thirteen-year-old Judy discovers that Pa isn't her real dad, and that her real father was an alcoholic who deserted the family. Through a friendship with a neighbor boy whose own father is an alcoholic, Judy eventually comes to forgive her family their secrets. While the story lacks a strong shape, Lurie's portrait of Brooklyn's Norwegian immigrant community in 1944 is well drawn.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander

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