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Garden, Nancy

Meeting Melanie

199 pp. | Farrar | September, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-374-34943-6 $$16.00
(3) 4-6 Although her father believes that girls are too weak for lobstering, Allie proves both her physical and emotional strength the summer she turns twelve. Set in an island community off the Maine coast, this moving novel explores the friendship that binds Allie, a working-class islander, with Melanie, a wealthy summer visitor whose family is being torn apart by the pregnancy of her unmarried older sister.
Reviewer: Patricia Riley

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