After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.
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Wilson's Junior High School, January 2010 School Library Journal, July 2009 Publisher's Weekly, June 2009 Booklist, May 2009 Horn Book, October 2009 Kirkus Review, June 2009 Multicultural Review, March 2009 Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, February 2010
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