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Gr 7 Up—In this stand-alone companion to Kindred (Knopf, 2011), Leni's family is in trouble. Several years ago they won 22 million dollars in the lottery, but now it has all been spent, except for the million dollar trust fund that Leni will receive when she turns 18 in a few days. She can tell that her parents expect her to give them the money, but as she watches how they spend in anticipation of the windfall, she worries that she real...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This companion book to Kindred (rev. 3/11) features another teen protagonist who has a similarly unexpected (and unpleasant) touched-by-an-angel encounter. When Leni was eleven, her family won seventy million dollars in the lottery. Now, almost seven years later, they've recklessly blown through nearly all the money. It hasn't been entirely single-minded selfishness: they paid for a child's cancer treatment and for a lawyer for one of Leni's classmates, Gavin. Now Leni is faced w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Leni's family has blown through nearly all of its seventy-million-dollar lottery winnings. Now Leni is faced with a dilemma: bai...Log In or Sign Up to Read More