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Buchanan, Jane , Buchanan, Jane

The Berry-Picking Man

88 pp. | Farrar | May, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-374-40610-3 $$15.00
(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Leslie Bowman & Leslie Bowman. Nine-year-old Meggie resents the time her mother puts in helping smelly Old Sam, a needy former mental hospital patient who showed up at church one day and stayed. While Buchanan rarely lets up on her heavy-handed message about empathy, Meggie's frustration with her mother and her guilt about her own feelings toward Sam are realistically depicted.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

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