In the Company of Crazies

By Baskin, Nora Raleigh & Raleigh, Henry P.

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Thirteen-year-old Mia Singer thought that she had it all under control. Sure, her grades were slipping a little bit (well, really, more than a little), and she couldn't explain her occasional compulsion to shoplift. The sudden death of a classmate affects Mia in a way she can't quite define, but then she goes one step too far. Her parents place her in an "alternative" boarding school. Away from her parents and surrounded by trees, space, and students whose problems she can't completely comprehend, Mia has no choice but to learn about herself. With insight and sympathy, Nora Raleigh Baskin focuses on the universal feeling of being a misfit, showing that sometimes the path home is as unexpected as it is challenging.

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ISBN
978-0-06059-607-1
Publisher
HarperCollins


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Reviewed on August 1, 2006

Gr 5-8 The sudden death of a classmate affects 13-year-old Mia Singer in ways even she doesn -t understand. She was an excellent student, but now her grades have dropped, she skips school and stops seeing friends, and she is caught shoplifting. When she calls the attendance secretary and explains that Mia Singer is absent because she is dead, her parents send her to Mountain Laurel, an alternative boarding school housed in an old country farmhouse. Here she is the only girl amid a half dozen boys wit...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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