โ Scribed by Melanie Thorne
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2012
โ Hand Me Down , which recalls the gritty power of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina , is fiction with the ring of truth.โ ?"San Jose Mercury News
Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents?โข cruel mistakes and broken promises. When their mother chooses her second husband and their new family over raising her firstborn girls, Elizabeth and Jaime are separated and risk losing the shelter of each other. Hand Me Down indelibly captures a contemporary family journey--how two young people, against incredible odds, forge lives of their own in the face of an uncertain future.
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