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Zarr, Sara

Once Was Lost

218 pp. | Little | October, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-316-03604-7 $16.99
(2) YA Zarr illuminates both the big questions and intimate challenges of being a "preacher's kid." Sam, fifteen, experiences a crisis of faith when her mother enters rehab. Then comes the real crisis: thirteen-year-old Jody, a member of the church youth group, disappears. Zarr navigates the ripped-from-the-headlines topic with empathy and delicacy, offering a believable portrait of small-town dynamics while creating deftly realized characters.
Reviewer: Claire E. Gross | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2010

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