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HARRY
SUE
Sue Stauffacher
Hardcover | Knopf
Books for Young Readers | June 2005 | $15.95 | 0-375-83274-2
| Ages 8-12
Hardcover Library
Binding | Knopf Books for Young Readers | June 2005 | $17.99
| 0-375-93274-7 | Ages 8-12
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Harry
Sue Clotkin has had more hardship in her eleven years than most people
have in an entire lifetime: being thrown from a seven-story window
by her drunken father at the age of five, watching her beloved mother
sentenced on a drug charge, being sent to live with her abusive grandmother,
and struggling to keep her best friend, a quadriplegic, from slipping
deeper and deeper into despair. Despite these enormous obstacles,
Harry Sue’s remarkable courage, love, intelligence, humor, resilience,
and compassion steer her toward a personal awakening that changes
her life forever. And like the main character in her favorite story,
The Wizard of Oz, Harry Sue’s journey toward love, home, and
the mother she longs for teaches us that “no one is ever really
lost to us. Not as long as you hold them in the palm of your heart.”
COPYRIGHT
Prepared by Colleen Carroll,
Education Consultant, Sleepy Hollow, New York
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