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Kurtz, Jane

Jakarta Missing

268 pp. | HarperCollins | April, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-06-029401-9 $$15.95 | Library ISBN 0-06-029402-7 $$15.89
(2) 4-6 Twelve-year-old Dakar has begun to settle uneasily into her North Dakota home despite her longing for her older sister Jakarta, who has remained in Africa, where the family had lived. Having long relied on her sister's strength, Dakar feels unable to be "the hero of [her] own life." This tightly controlled, intense interior novel ends with Dakar really beginning to understand the enormous truth that life is terrifying--and wonderful.
Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2001

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