The Flip-Flop Girl

Katherine Paterson. Puffin Books, $6.99 (128pp) ISBN 978-0-14-037679-1

PW starred its review of this powerful and sensitive novel about a girl obliged to move to her grandmother's house after her father dies. Ages 8-12. (Mar.)

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