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CM . . .
. Volume XVII Number 19. . . .January 21, 2011
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Sadie Thompson, otherwise known as Fostergirl, is at a new high school, in a new group home located in a small town. It's school and home number 13 – lucky number 13. Sadie's goal at this new environment is to go unnoticed. She's not interested in making friends. She intends to keep to herself until her sixteenth birthday. Then she can appeal to live alone, to become independent and get away. However, there's the school counselor who seems to have endless beliefs in Sadie's abilities. Mrs. Jackson shows Sadie methods to cope with school and shows her that she can succeed at school. On the first day of school, Sadie is befriended by a fellow student called Rhiannon, a girl known to the school as someone whose family collects foster girls. Although Sadie doesn't seem to mind Rhiannon's friendship, she continues to act indifferent. Being alone is the only way she can protect herself from hurting.
Recommended. Alicia Cheng is a Children's Librarian at Vancouver Public Library in Vancouver, BC.
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