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Buffie, Margaret

Out of Focus

239 pp. | Kids Can/KCP | October, 2006 | Trade ISBN 1-55337-955-1 $16.95 | Paper ISBN 1-55337-956-X $6.95
(3) YA The Dodd family seeks a fresh start by moving to Black Spruce Lodge in rural Canada after sixteen-year-old Bernice threatens to call child services on her alcoholic mother. Buffie presents Bernie's pain and her inner strength with a minimum of guile. The dialogue is sharp and the setting and characters are poetically depicted through Bernie's troubled eyes.
Reviewer: Laura A. Woollett

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