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Hawes, Louise

Rosey in the Present Tense

128 pp. | Walker | March, 1999 | Trade ISBN 0-8027-8685-5 $$15.95
(3) YA After seventeen-year-old Franklin's girlfriend dies in a car crash she comes back from the dead in spirit form to help him grieve and move on. Though it starts off like Ghost meets Dawson's Creek, the story is eventually carried beyond its trite premise through skillful characterization and thoughtful dialogue. No facile tearjerking here; readers will be slowly, satisfyingly moved to tears.
Reviewer: Jennifer M. Brabander

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