OLDER FICTION
Townsend, Wendy

Lizard Love

(3) YA Teenager Grace is devastated to leave her rural home and move with her mother to New York. Frightened by the city, Grace finds solace and friendship at a reptile pet shop where she learns not only about lizards' life cycles and maturation but also about her own. Grace's relationships and her painfully awkward transition into adulthood are well drawn.

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