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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Angela Johnson |
| Narrator: |
Andra Johnson |
| Fiction Genre: |
Family & Relationships · Juvenile Fiction |
| Awards: |
1999 Coretta Scott King Award |
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Professional Reviews
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School Library Journal: Gr 6-9-What makes a person who she is? Is it her name, the people she lives with, or is blood the only link to identity? Marley, 14, suddenly plunges head first into these complex questions when she discovers that the people she's been living with her entire life aren't her real parents. Butchy is not her real brother, and her mysterious Uncle Jack, who has been writing her short but beautiful letters for as long as she can remember, turns out to be her real, very absent father. In spare, often poetic prose reminiscent of Patricia MacLachlan's work, Johnson relates Marley's insightful quest into what makes a family. Her extreme anger with her supposed parents, who turn out to be her aunt and uncle, for not telling her the truth, for not being the perfect family that she'd always thought them to be, wars with her knowledge that not even her friend Shoogy Maple's model family is as perfect and beautiful as it seems. The various examples of "family" Marley encounters make |
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Book Editions
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Format: Audio - Audio Cassette
Publisher: Recorded Books (January 01, 2001)
ISBN: 9780788745638 |
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Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents. |
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