Girlchild

By Tupelo Hassman. Farrar, $24 (9780374162573).

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91´«Ã½

Hassman’s inventive and utterly believable debut takes place in a 1980s Reno trailer park, where narrator Rory Dawn lives with her alcoholic and mentally ill mother and suffers abuse at the hands of inept babysitters

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ISBN:

9780374162573

Awards Won

Title Year
Booklist Editors' Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults

91´«Ã½

Selected by the Books for Youth editors, the following titles comprise the year’s best personal reading for teenagers among adult books published in 2006. More on each book’s content and suggested audience can be found in the full-length Booklist review.
2012 - Selection(s)