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Synopsis
Twelve-year-old Lindy has a secret that she both longs to share and fears admitting. In her new town she is safe from others' knowledge of her past, but she cannot ignore the guilt that permeates her thoughts. With a dilapidated house she wants to hide and a little brother who refused to leave her alone, Lindy must cope with the loss that has left her father silent and strange and her family reeling. Lindy's guilt is balanced by humor, and Golding's engaging novel will catch and hold the attention of even the most reluctant reader.
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About the Author
Theresa Martin Golding is the author of the novels Kat's Surrender and The Secret Within, as well as the picture book Memorial Day Surprise. She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
From School Library Journal
Grade 6-8–Through a compelling, caustic, first-person narration, Lindy Perkins shares her pain, guilt, and shame as her family tries to recover from the accidental death of her infant sister. She has other secrets to hide from her schoolmates in her new town: her run-down house is in a neighborhood of new, expensive homes; the months her family lived in a homeless shelter; and her bereft father is ridiculed by the community for scavenging materials for his bizarre sculptures. Lindy lives for softball, and she has tremendous talent, yet even that is threatened when she avoids homework, copies a friend's math assignments, forges her parents' signatures, shoots paper clips at those who sit in front of her, and beans a teammate who makes an insulting comment at practice. Perhaps it is Lindy's sharp comments, wry wit, or athletic prowess that prompt two of her classmates to befriend her–it certainly isn't her efforts to reach out to them. Readers will appreciate the wonderful softball descriptions and infusions of suspense and humor, and may not mind the forced, tidy ending in this story of tragedy and family dysfunction.–Laura Scott, Farmington Community Library, MI
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- PublisherBoyds Mills Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1590782917
- ISBN 13 9781590782910
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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