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Description edit
Camille is a young girl stuck in the past. Classic TV shows, old music, and dresses that never made it into the 21st century.
After her mother left a puzzling note leaving her in the care of Uncle Bob, she had a rough go of it, not wanting to conform to his rigorous rules and this new... read more
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Quotes edit
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“"When you have hope, if it’s towards something, you have a deadline. You’re going to keep hoping until the thing happens or not, and that’s it. Even if it takes a long time, one day you are just going to stop hoping, because you achieved your purpose or because you failed. Whatever the case, it ends.Hope for unknown reasons is endless. And it hurts."”
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“"And most of all, there was her voice, the woman who sang to me for all those years, comforting me since that first day with Uncle Bob, going into my core and caressing my soul from the inside out…Mama Cass. Her inspiring voice is my safe place, where I can go to escape, ‘cause she makes all the darkness bearable…she puts light where there was none."”
First Sentence edit
School was a mess today. Everybody was crying, pretending to be Ashley’s best friend and trying to be on the news. All the mean girls at school were on it—those horrible bullies Uncle Bob had warned me about. It seems somehow ironic that I wanted so badly in those first couple of years to get out of the house and go to school, meet other people. And now that I’m here, all I want is to go back home and never leave again.
Table of Contents edit
Table of Contents
1 – One of the Invisible Kids
2 – To Occupy My Hands
3 – Four Times
4 – Be Nice to Uncle Robert
5 – Something Really Stupid
6 – The Beginning
7 – That’s When My World Spins
8 – This is Your New Room
9 – Soundproof
10 – Goofy Was Smiling
11 – Strawberry Pancakes
12 – My Copy in the Basement
13 – Black Taffeta
14 – Chocolate-Banana Cake
15 – Disappear With Her
16 – A Robotic Dance
17 – Is That Really You?
18 – Not Even Goodbye
19 – A Family Emergency
20 – Both Magical and Odd
21 – He Was a Good Cook
22 – Cake in My Mouth
23 – Fairy Tales
24 – 210 Miles Away
25 – My Sore Hush-a-Bye
26 – I’m Old
Epilogue – Some Time Later
About the Author
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