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Myers, Anna

When the Bough Breaks

170 pp. | Walker | October, 2000 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8725-8 $$16.95
(2) YA Fifteen-year-old foster child Ophelia avoids getting close to anyone. When she takes on the job of reading aloud to ninety-two-year-old Portia, she reluctantly finds herself drawn to share her tragic past with the reclusive old woman. Told alternately from Ophelia's and Portia's points of view, the narrative puts monstrous acts of cruelty into context in this thoughtful intergenerational story of loss and deliverance.
Reviewer: Kitty Flynn | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2001

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