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137 pp.
| Viking |
April, 2004 |
TradeISBN 0-670-03680-3$$15.99
(4)
4-6
Translated by Gill Rosner.
As she begins junior high, Margot struggles with difficult teachers and assignments, is named class representative, and takes a school trip to Rome. The omniscient narrative gives this French import a sometimes remote quality. Kids, however, will relate to Margot's rather grandiloquent angst.