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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2011
It's the summer before the start of third grade, and eight-year-old Eleanor is bereft when her babysitter Bibi moves away to care for her sick father. Her parents tell her that she doesn't need Bibi as much anymore, and that everything will be okay. "Everything will not be okay,' I said. / This is as bad as somebody dying,' I said." Eleanor's parents treat her with compassion, and her new babysitter Natalie sensi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More