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Carolina Crow Girl

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By Valerie Hobbs
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
Carolina Crow Girl
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Elevenyearold Carolina lives with her mother, Melanie, and her baby sister, Trinity, in an old school bus. Wheels make you free, Melanie says, free to pick up and go at any time. For Melanie, that means following Red, who is Trinitys father but not Carolinas, wherever he goes. In the field where they have parked the bus this time, Carolina finds a baby crow that has fallen from its nest, and decides to keep him, protect him, at least until hes old enough to fly. She also finds friendship with Stefan Crouch, a lonely boy who lives in a mansion adjacent to the field. Stefan is confined to a wheelchair and shielded from harm by his protective mother. As Carolinas life becomes more entwined with that of the Crouches, she sees that, although life with Melanie may not be perfect, its with Melanie that she belongs, and that keeping Crow is wrong. In this beautifully written, moving novel, Valerie Hobbs explores the fine line between safety and stagnation, rootlessness and freedom.

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144 pages144 pages
Lexile 620LLexile 620L

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Book ISBN:

9780374311537

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