Description
At fifteen, Tamara has survived the foster-care system through brains, will and attitude. Now there's high school to get through, along with her teacher's latest community project -- volunteering at the local seniors' home. Tamara doubts she can endure either the residents or the smells.
Then she's assigned to Jean Barclay, a cranky, wealthy and frail former schoolteacher. As the two size one another up, they realize each is the key to achieving their own very different goals. Miss Barclay wants to attend an opera in Seattle -- a trip doctors insist she's too weak to undertake. Tamara wants to enroll in modeling school in Vancouver -- an expense she can't begin to afford. They plan the road trip of a lifetime -- but can these two bossy, manipulative women keep from throttling each other before their goals are realized?
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Prizes
- Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz AwardShort-listed 2007
- Manitoba Young Reader's Choice AwardShort-listed 2008
- Chocolate Lily AwardLong-listed 2008
- OLA Red Maple AwardLong-listed 2008
- Governor General's Literary Awards: TextShort-listed 2006
- SSLI Honor BookCommended 2007
- OLA Best Bets - Top 10 Fiction for Young AdultsCommended 2007
- CCBC Our Choice (Starred Selection)Commended 2007
- Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature PrizeShort-listed 2007
- Maine State Library Cream of the Crop ListCommended 2007
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