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A Novel in Prose Poems

By Rosenberg, Liz

Publishers Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Stephanie journeys from fall to spring and from childhood to womanhood as she experiences first love and deals with her fear of inheriting her mother's mental illness.

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ISBN
978-0-81264-915-4
Publisher
Chicago, IL : Cricket Books, 2002.


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on November 1, 2002

Gr 9-Up At 17, but looking 14 with her slight, underdeveloped figure, Stephanie is "the girl" with long red hair who writes poetry and takes advanced classes at her Massachusetts high school. On the first day of her junior year, she attracts the eye of Denny Pistil, son of a rich attorney, who soon sweeps her off her feet with his interest in her poetry and his passionate attentions. He makes her wonder if she is "betraying- the world of her mother, the untouched, unscathed world of her self." Her mother works at home as a pott...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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