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INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Bennett, Cherie

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243 pp. | Delacorte | October, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-385-32669-6 $$15.95
(4) 4-6 Ten-year-old Becky Zaslow endures painful leukemia treatments with comfort from her fantasy trio of singing zebras, a device Bennett took from the writings of an actual young cancer patient. Bennett's inclusion of long, flippant narratives about the zebras' African herd breaks up the tone of the book, which is otherwise a deeply affecting account of Becky's illness and death.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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