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328 pp.
| Bloomsbury |
September, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-1-61963-080-2$17.99
(4)
YA
At first Dane walks to school with Billy, a classmate with Down syndrome, to work off some detentions for violent behavior. But he ends up trying to help Billy solve a series of riddles in order to track down Billy's father. Lange constructs a complex relationship between the boys--sincere at heart but steeped in deception and manipulation. Unfortunately, the plot stalls out at the end.