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Conly, Jane Leslie

What Happened on Planet Kid

216 pp. | Holt | May, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-6065-0 $$16.95
(2) 4-6 Staying with her great-aunt and -uncle while her mother recovers from an operation, twelve-year-old Dawn must cope alone with the realization that her hardscrabble friend Charlotte is being abused by her father. Setting the story in 1958 rural Virginia, Conly vividly yet subtly evokes era and place; and Dawn is entirely believable as a child who loses her innocence while grappling on her own with adult issues.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2000

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