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"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."
- Voltaire
(1694 - 1778)
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ZIN Product Number: 10191095
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
ISBN: 0689818513
Release Date: Jan 1, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
At the beginning of this novel, Gerald Nickelby has a "stable life with a firm but loving aunt who is caring for him while his mother serves a prison sentence for child neglect. {That stability} is shattered when his mother returns to claim him on his ninth birthday. With her is a young daughter, Angel, to whom Gerald is drawn, and her husband, Jordan, whom Gerald instinctivelydislikes. When Gerald learns that Jordan is sexually abusing Angel, he risksphysical assault and public embarrassment to rescue her. . . . Grades seven to ten." (Booklist)
| | | | From The Publisher
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
| | | | Annotation
After he was almost killed in an apartment fire while his mother went to buy drugs, Gerald was raised by his aunt. Then one day, six years later, his mother returns with her new husband and Angel, Gerald's little sister. As the children grow up, it becomes more and more apparent that Angel needs Gerald's protection from her father's abuse. But who will protect Gerald? 160 pp. Young Adult. Pub: 1/97.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
my favorite book EVER!
-- A reviewer, sport lover, May 22, 2002
Great Book
-- Bethany, March 4, 2002
Also Recommended: Heaven, Spite Fences, Bud, not Buddy, Color me Dark, The Golden Compass, The Subtile Knife, The Amber Spygalss
wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
-- keysha, in the 8th grade in mason, November 30, 2001
Also Recommended: tears or tiger ,darkness before dawn
this bokk is so good you wont want to stop until your done reading it !!!
-- none ya, someone who like to read good books, July 29, 2002
Also Recommended: TEARS OF A TIGER(SAME AUTHER),A CHILD CALLED IT BY DAVE PELZER,NO DISRESPECT BY SISTER SOULJAH.ALL GOOD BOOKS
the best book I've read
-- Sophia, a high school student, November 16, 2001
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