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Reviewed on June 1, 2015 | Multimedia Review
Gr 9 Up—Mary "Mim" Malone, using money from her stepmother's coffee-can savings, defiantly boards a bus from "Mosquitoland" (as she calls Mississippi) to visit her mom in Ohio. A bus wreck, a threatening encounter, a chance meet up under a bridge, a cute boy who makes her heart thump: Mim describes it all. The story skips back and forth in time, and Mim, while unflinchingly h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More