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171 pp.
| Clarion |
October, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-618-43020-2$15.00
(4)
4-6
Arlie has always struggled to understand her perfectionist mother. When her parents are seriously injured in an accident, her mother falls into a coma, and a strange new girl appears in Arlie's fifth-grade class. Could she possibly be Arlie's mother as a child? Despite some good writing, the premise is never quite made convincing.