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Lesley Kagen
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English
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After promising on her father's deathbed to protect her sister, Troo, young Sally O'Malley finds she and her sister are on their own--with their mother hospitalized, their stepfather descending into alcoholism, and their big sister preoccupied with her boyfriend--at the same time that a child molester and murderer is on the loose.
2) Good graces
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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During a sweltering 1960 Milwaukee heat wave, Sally O'Malley struggles with the trauma of her father's sudden death and her sister Troo's possible role in a string of burglaries, an escape from a reform school, and an orphan's disappearance.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
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When her mother's bizarre disappearance in the summer of 1968 triggers her twin sister's traumatic inability to speak, 11-year-old Shenandoah is prompted to discover the truth of her mother's fate when her alcoholic father cruelly threatens to remarry and send her sister away.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Left brain damaged after a car accident that killed her parents, fledgling reporter Gibby McGraw is determined to prove that she can compete with everyone else when she stumbles upon the body of Buster Malloy, the future governor of Kentucky, and sets out to solve the murder, uncovering a web of corruption, family secrets, and racism in tiny Cray Ridge.