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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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760L
Language
English
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"Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded, having bid her childhood good-bye. Stranded in front of her bedroom TV, she spends the next few years nourishing herself with the Mallomars, potato chips, and Pepsi her anxious mother supplies. When she finally orbits into young womanhood at 257 pounds, Dolores is no stronger and life is no kinder. But this time she's determined to rise to the occasion and give herself one more chance...
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English
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The story of Penny Culligan, a 29-year-old diabetic from Chicago who used her insulin to kill a boyfriend after he was mauled by a bear and begged to be put out his misery. As she cycles to Alaska several years later to revisit the scene, the novel describes the way Penny is coping with the memory of that mercy killing. By the author of Out of the Blue.
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