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Glenn, Sharlee

Keeping Up with Roo

32 pp. | Putnam | March, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-399-23480-2 $$14.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Dan Andreasen. When Gracie was little, her mentally retarded aunt, Roo, was her best friend. When Roo embarrasses the now older Gracie in front of a school friend, Gracie must make a tough choice. Andreasen's pastel-colored illustrations capturing a 1950s farm setting are a perfect match for the detail-driven text, which never spells out the moving and ambitious themes of the story.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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