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a witty new african american heroine for middle-grade readers isbn 0-440-42086-5 · 978-0-440-42086-6 price $5.99 7.50 can on sale 6/12/2007 trim size 5-3/16 x 7-5/8 · pages 192 carton count 48 · ages 8­12 format digest order form category middle-grade fiction territory world british translation rhcb performance author c/o rhcb ean 9 780440 420866 sweet thang allison whittenberg the year is 1975 and 14-year-old charmaine upshaw is a girl obsessed with justice unfortunately her life is filled with injustice from her parents who make her share a room with her tap-dancing brother leo at school where light-skinned barbie-doll-haired dinah coverdale steals all the boys attention and makes sure dark-skinned charmaine knows it and from tracy john her six-year-old cousin who s taken over the family when charmaine is charged with babysitting her spoiled cousin after school that s the last straw and when charmaine cracks she starts to see the world in a whole new light can charmaine learn to love herself her mahogany skin and her attention-starved little cousin charmaine is an appealing character intelligent but capable of bad choices and tracy john is similarly realistic their slowly evolving affection makes for a feel-good read booklist a first-time novelist allison whittenberg lives in philadelphia pennyslvania also available sweet thang isbn hc 0-385-73292-9 · 978-0-385-73292-5 $15.95 22.95 can isbn glb 0-385-90313-8 · 978-0-385-90313-4 $17.99 25.99 can middle grade · 95

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