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Baskin, Nora Raleigh.
ALMOST HOME : A NOVEL
Boston : Little, Brown, 2003.
IL 5-8, RL 5.5
ISBN 0316093130
Leah is angry.  It wasn't supposed to work out this way.  She has moved around so often, one more move wouldn't be any big deal.  Her mother was supposed to pick her up after summer camp and then they were going to move to California.  Instead, Leah's father arrived at camp and took her back to his house.  She misses her mother so much and dreams that she'll be there to pick her up any day now.  Her father and her stepmother tend to think she plans to stay there forever.  At school, Leah is uncooperative and tries to stay to herself.  Will Leah ever find the home she longs for?
SUBJECTS:     Family problems -- Fiction.
                        Stepmothers -- Fiction.
                        Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Self-acceptance -- Fiction

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