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Conly, Jane Leslie

While No One Was Watching

233 pp. | Holt | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-8050-3934-1
(1) 4-6 A tough and compelling survival story is told from the point of view of five characters: siblings Earl, Frankie, and Angela (on their own after their aunt disappears on a drinking binge) and, from a very different part of the city, Maynard and Addie (whose pet rabbit has been stolen by affection-starved, seven-year-old Frankie). Conly writes convincingly and unsentimentally about the working-class poor in an urban setting.
Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.

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