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OLDER FICTION
Grant, Vicki

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163 pp. | Orca | April, 2005 | Trade ISBN 1-55143-394-X $16.95 | Paper ISBN 1-55143-370-2 $7.95
(4) YA Thirteen-year-old narrator Cyril's mom is a twenty-eight-year-old former street kid who becomes an activist lawyer. When she gets kidnapped, Cyril must follow the clues to save her. Grant's characters are fresh and quirky, and she effectively combines humor with suspense. At times, however, she strains for a teenage voice, and there's an unexamined undercurrent of meanness in the story.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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