Michelle D Kwasney
1) Baby Blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In western Massachusetts in 1976, still grieving and guilt-ridden over her father's drowning, twelve-year-old Blue is dealt another blow when her older sister, Star, runs away to escape their stepfather's violence against their mother.
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After the death of her beloved Gramps, Delores Colchester, better known as "Itch," moves with her grandmother from Florida to Ohio. Starting over is hard, and Itch feels like an outsider in her new school, until she becomes friends with popular baton-twirling Gwendolyn. On the outside, Gwendolyn seems perfect: talented, smart, and beautiful. But, she has a dark secret, which Itch begins to suspect and soon discovers is true. "Speaking up takes courage,"...
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The lives of three troubled girls, of three different generations, intertwine: "Evocative . . . [The] protagonists are distinctive and sympathetic." -Publishers Weekly
An Eliot Rosewater Award Nominee
Shortlisted for a Cybil Award
Spanning from the late 1970s to 2009, this novel follows the stories of three young women raised by single mothers in upstate New York. Madeline eats compulsively and tries to be ultra-responsible as she copes...