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13 year-old Martha Glimmer is convinced this is the worst time of her life. Her mother died, she grew 7 inches, and she has to put up with a woman who provides Martha's lonely father with horrible food and opinions about how 13 year-old girls should behave. Martha longs to leave Oak Grove... read more

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The town of Oak Grove was so far away from the ocean that most people who lived there had never seen a seagull or listened to the whisper of a pink shell.

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  1. Alice Hoffman (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Scholastic Press
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Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0439256356
Page Count: 96

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