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Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found

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By Jennifer Lauck
Publisher Washington Square Press - (Washington Square Press)
Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found
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To young Jenny, the house on Mary Street was home the place where she was loved, a bluesky world of Barbies, Bewitched, and the Beatles. Even her mothers pain from her mysterious illness could be patted away with powder and a kiss on the cheek. But when everything that Jenny had come to rely on begins to crumble, an odyssey of loss, loneliness, and a childs will to survive takes flight....

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114129 words114,129 words
432 pages432 pages
Lexile 830LLexile 830L
Published 2000Published 2000

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Book ISBN:

9780671042561

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