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Hobbs, Valerie

Tender

245 pp. | Farrar/Foster | September, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-374-37397-3 $$18.00
(2) YA When her grandmother dies, fifteen-year-old Liv must go live with her father, an abalone diver, who abandoned her when her mother died in childbirth. Readers will relate to Liv's mood swings and to her contradictory needs to both escape from her father's cold presence and grow closer to him. In the end, Hobbs offers readers the promise of a better relationship between Liv and her father without the glibness of problems solved overnight.
Reviewer: Jeannine M. Chapman | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2001

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