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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 1989
Gr 4-6 Nikki has taken on responsibility for entirely too many problems in her young life. This is both the theme and the weakness of this cumbersome novel. After caring for her sick mother at some vague earlier period, she now anguishes over the family's financial insecurity due to her father's new business venture, a Mississippi riverboat. In addition to what appears to be a full-time job cleanin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More