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DeFelice, Cynthia

Nowhere to Call Home

200 pp. | Farrar | April, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-374-35552-5 $$16.00
(2) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Frances is jolted from her sheltered life by the suicide of her father in Depression-era Philadelphia. Frightened of living with an unknown aunt in Chicago, she snatches at the romantic notion of hopping a freight train and becoming a hobo. The theme of running away as a rite of passage plays out well, bringing Frances more painful loss but also courage and resolve as, in the end, she heads for Chicago and the prospect of a real home.
Reviewer: Margaret A. Bush | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 1999

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