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Angelica Skyler certainly wasn't a perfect mother to fourteen-year-old Thumbelina, but when she is found dead in the local duck pond, Thumbelina yearns to have her back. Six feet tall with thick glasses covering a face she doesn't seem to know is pretty, Thumbelina is now alone with a few Johnny Cash tapes, a guitar that belonged to the musician father she never knew, and a spirit almost as large as the odds against her.
Quickly placed with a foster family, Thumbelina bumps straight into Myrna, a feisty redhead half her size and with a baby in her stomach. Also fourteen years old and as savvy as they come, Myrna has no trouble discerning that her secretive new roommate is pregnant, too. With little money but lots of charm, the unlikely pair strike out on their own, only to run into more serious trouble and heartache than they could have ever imagined.
Thumbelina's wonderfully idiosyncratic sense of humor and indefatigable courage guide her through social workers, a particularly tenacious doctor, and deadbeat dads as she struggles for a future just as she comes to terms with her past.
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Fiction, Death, Mothers, Orphans, Orphans in fiction, Teenage girls in fiction, Mothers in fiction, Teenage girls, Teenage pregnancy, Pregnant schoolgirls, Teenage pregnancy in fiction, Pregnant schoolgirls in fiction, Fiction, general, Children's fiction, Washington (state), fiction, Diaries, fiction, Washington (d.c.), fictionPlaces
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THUMBELINA: A Novel
March 9, 2000, Scribner Paper Fiction
Paperback
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- 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction Ed edition
0684850079 9780684850078
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Thumbelina: The Journal of a Young Girl
June 1998, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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0060233389 9780060233389
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Thumbelina, a 14 year old girl, is orphaned and left with her abusive stepfather. She's placed into foster care where she meets her new best friend. This book is a touching and sad story about a girl who just wants to be loved and wants to love. Full of surprise twists and turns, this book is highly recommended for high school students.
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