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Description

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive.

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First Sentence

ONE HOT DAY toward the end of the summer term in which Ginny had her sixteenth birthday, she got home from school to find Dad already there, talking to a stranger.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Philip Pullman (Author)

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  1. 2000
  2. b
  3. children
  4. fiction
  5. general fiction
  6. lost
  7. philip pullman
  8. pullman
  9. teens
  10. young adult 
 

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