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Good Graces
Good Graces | Lesley Kagen
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To this day, my sister insists it was nothing more than the unrelenting heat that drove us to do what we did that summer, but thats just Troo yanking my chain the way she always has. Deep down, she knows as well as I do that it wasnt anything as mundane as the weather. It was the hand of the Almighty that shoved us off the straight and narrow path Whistling in the Darka national bestsellercaptivated readers with the story of ten-year-old Sally OMalley and her sister, Troo, during Milwaukees summer of 1959. Now its one year later, and Sally, who made a deathbed promise to her daddy to keep Troo safe, is having a hard time honoring her vow. Her sister is growing increasingly rebellious amid a string of home burglaries, the escape from reform school of a nemesis, and the mysterious disappearance of an orphanevents that have the entire neighborhood on edge. And in that tense, hot summer, Sally will have to ground her flights of imagination, and barter her waning innocence, in order to sort the truths from the lies to protect her sister and herself.
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DebinHawaii
Good Graces | Lesley Kagen
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There may have been a tiny bit of book buying done this morning & two library books came home with me (I was in a thriller mood) when I returned four books today. 😬📚The thrift store had a BOGO deal today so Since We Fell & The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (a #blameitonlitsy pick I've never read) cost me $1. The tagged book is a sequel to a book I loved & also cost me $1 at the library's sale book section. #bookhaul

Cinfhen Heads up purchasing 👍🏻😊 7y
Zelma Nice job on the book haul! 👍 7y
GAustin Since we fell is on my shelf... waiting 7y
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VolunteerVal
Good Graces | Lesley Kagen
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This book, and "Whistling in the Dark" its prequel, are PERFECT summer reads. Both tell the summertime adventures of two sisters in 1960 Milwaukee. I listened to both in audio, read fabulously by the author, and enjoyed every minute.

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Coleen
Good Graces | Lesley Kagen
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The follow-up to Whistling in the Dark, which I also recently read. Anyone born between ~1955-1975 will appreciate the nostalgia this book creates. Lots of feel-good stuff. The author reads both audiobooks & really does a great job with inflection. Highly recommend both books!

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