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Twelve-year-old Lincoln has grown up next to Iowa's Oakland Cemetery with his "kind of unusual" mom, a professor specializing in burial customs. His first junior high assignment is to research one of the cemetery's graves. Ray's characters are quirky and relatable, with genuine emotions; Linc, in particular, is an earnest, self-effacing narrator trying to both fit in and do the right thing.
Reviewer: Rachel L. Smith
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September, 2011