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Eleven-year-old Ben has decided to stay with his stepfather when his mother, capricious and irresponsible as always, leaves the family. Dustin, his deeply disturbed older stepbrother, soon follows Ben's mom. Griffin tells a wrenching tale of a young man struggling to find his voice in an unpredictable world where family ties are determined by personal affinity and choice rather than genes.
Reviewer: Nancy Vasilakis
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 1999