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Twelve-year-old Reena's family has just moved to coastal Maine. Reena's parents insist that she and her younger brother help an elderly neighbor, and the city kids are soon mucking out the barn for an ornery woman's equally ornery cow. Reena's narrative uses a comfortable combination of prose, poems, and prose poems. The story zips along yet somehow conveys the slow growth of friendship.