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231 pp.
| Holt |
October, 2003 |
TradeISBN 0-8050-7083-4$$16.95
(4)
4-6
Thirteen-year-old diarist Aggie and her older brother are left in Maine with their eccentric ninety-one-year-old grandfather while their romance-novelist mother researches her next book. What follows is a tale of family revelations and personal discovery for the narrator. Although overly sentimental at times, Agell's debut novel is a complex picture of family life, told with the warmth of a Maine summer.