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130 pp.
| Holiday |
December, 2001 |
TradeISBN 0-8234-1599-6$$16.95
(3)
4-6
While thirteen-year-old Isabel Ramirez is working at her summer job weeding the garden of a house in Oakland, California, she realizes that neighbors want to kill a cougar that lives in the hills. Izzie and her cousins try to protect the cougar, and she learns about the complexity of human nature. The novel is peopled with colorful and sympathetic characters.