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Not Quite a Stranger

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By Colby Rodowsky
Publisher Farrar, Straus Giroux - (Farrar, Straus Giroux (BYR))
Not Quite a Stranger
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A girl discovers she has a half brother Charlotte Flannigan (Tottie, for short) leads a conventional life in a conventional family. Her father is a wellrespected pediatrician, her mother a popular newspaper columnist, and her younger brother a talkative but otherwise okay kid. But on an ordinary Saturday afternoon, Totties comfortable life is threatened when the doorbell rings. She answers it to find a teenage boy, who looks eerily like her father, standing there. A stranger, but not quite a stranger. His name is Zachary Pearce, and he is her fathers and not her mothers son. Told through the alternating perspectives of Tottie and Zach, Colby Rodowskys novel explores the ramifications of a sudden change in the makeup of a family. Fear, resentment, desperation, and potential for love all surface in this honest and heartfelt story.

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37469 words37,469 words
192 pages192 pages
Lexile 890LLexile 890L
Grade 5 to 8Grade 5 to 8
Published 2003Published 2003

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