Michelle D Kwasney
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After the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as "Itch," moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn seems perfect: talented, smart, and beautiful. But, she has a dark secret, which Itch begins to suspect and soon discovers is true. "Speaking up takes courage,"...
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The lives of three troubled girls, of three different generations, intertwine: "Evocative . . . [The] protagonists are distinctive and sympathetic." -Publishers Weekly
An Eliot Rosewater Award Nominee
Shortlisted for a Cybil Award
Spanning from the late 1970s to 2009, this novel follows the stories of three young women raised by single mothers in upstate New York. Madeline eats compulsively and tries to be ultra-responsible as she copes...
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We sat at the kitchen table, across from each other. In the same spots we sat for dinner up till a month ago. The shadows on the table looked like prison bars again. This time it was Star being caged. Star, who thought leaving made her free. That life would be all hunky-dory shampooing heads and sweeping floors while Mama got slapped around-far enough away so she wouldn't have to hear the screams.
That's when I knew for sure-I couldn't leave Mama....