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Lost
By Davies, Jacqueline
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Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
Sixteen-year-old Triangle Shirtwaist Factory worker Essie befriends mysterious Harriet Abbott. Harriet helps Essie come to grips with h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Junior Library Guild
Reviewed on June 1, 2009
Jacqueline Davies’s Lost is a beautifully crafted exploration of loss, family, and the ways that grief can bring strangers together or push loved ones apart. The story introduces sixteen-year-old factory worker Essie Rosenfeld just after the death of her younger sister, Zelda, whom Essie treated as if she were her own daughter. Essie is so crazed with grief that she constructs an elaborate fantasy in which Zelda isn’t gone, but is hidden from Essie by their mother. The new girl at work, Harriet, carries a mysterious sadness of her own that ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
