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Reviewed on July 1, 1987
Gr 5-8 Like Cassedy's Maggie in Behind the Attic Wall (Crowell, 1983), Mary Ella (M. E.) survives on her imagination. When a new girl turns up in the neighborhood, M. E. imagines their growing friendship, imagines her admiring the way M. E. ties her shoelaces at the bottom, the way the sun brings out the red highlights in M. E.'s hair. . . . What M. E. wants is a friend to admire her; what she has, instead, is an admiring older brother, painfully awkward, painfully sl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
