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Hughes, Shirley

Whistling in the Dark

227 pp. | Candlewick | November, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-0-7636-9072-4 $16.99
(4) 4-6 1940 Liverpool is handily evoked in this wartime story of thirteen-year-old Joan and her sisters, brother, and widowed mother enduring air-raids, blackouts, and rationing. The story itself is generic and predictable, but it has enough gentle, old-fashioned appeal to speak to American Girls fans ready for something a bit more sophisticated.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton

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