See You Around, Sam!

Lois Lowry, Diane de Groat. Yearling Books, $5.99 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-440-41400-1

Sam (Anastasia's little brother) is forbidden to wear his plastic fangs in the house and attempts to run away to Alaska, where the walruses will surely accept his oral protrusions. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)

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