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Reviewed on January 1, 2005
Gr 7-Up Sixteen-year-old Nancy's family is odd. It's not that her mother is white and her father is black -she lives in New York, where biracial families are not uncommon. It's not even that her mother, a master weaver, is agoraphobic, or that her father moves out of their basement apartment every spring to live on a nearby rooftop. It's that her father produces sticky silk threads from his hands to help him travel Brooklyn by rooftop, and her mother comes from a line of powerful healers. So far, Nancy is neither spider n...Log In or Sign Up to Read More



