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Not Quite a Stranger
Author: Colby Rodowsky
Not Quite a Stranger
$11.99
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Book Details
A girl discovers she has a half brother
Charlotte Flannigan (Tottie, for short) leads a conventional life in a conventional family. Her father is a well-respected pediatrician, her mother a popular newspaper columnist, and her younger brother a talkative but otherwise okay kid. But on an ordinary Saturday afternoon, Tottie's comfortable life is threatened when the doorbell rings. She answers it to find a teenage boy, who looks eerily like her father, standing there. A stranger, but not quite a stranger. His name is Zachary Pearce, and he is her father's - and not her mother's - son.
Told through the alternating perspectives of Tottie and Zach, Colby Rodowsky's novel explores the ramifications of a sudden change in the makeup of a family. Fear, resentment, desperation, and potential for love all surface in this honest and heartfelt story.
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN
9781466894204
In The News
"This warm-hearted novel traces a displaced orphan's adjustment to a new family...As always, the author does a superb job of downplaying the melodrama of an extraordinary situation and evoking the emotions of ordinary adolescents in crisis."—Publisher's Weekly