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Chargement... Losers Bracketpar Chris Crutcher
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Chris Crutcher's social work background is obvious in this book, which is centered around a girl in long-term foster care with strong, if not healthy, ties to her biological family. Annie is a star basketball player who has been fortunate to be placed in a comfortably-off and caring long-term foster placement. One problem is that she can't let go of caring about her substance abusing and irresponsible mother and sister, and her young nephew, and whenever she sees them it's hard to recover. Another problem is that her foster father cares too much, specifically about her athletic achievements, and is therefore demanding and critical and clueless about her emotional state. On the positive side, Annie's foster mother and brother do understand her, and so do her social worker, therapist, best friend, and her mother's boyfriend. When Annie's nephew goes missing, all the problems come to the fore, but so does Annie's support system. At first it was disconcerting for Crutcher to have written in first person from a girl's point of view, but the path of the story is engaging enough so that ultimately it all works. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family would not have been her first pick. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back into their drama. Love is like that. But when a family argument breaks out at Annie's swim meet and her nephew goes missing, Annie might be the only one who can get him back. With help from her friends, her foster brother, and her social service worker, Annie puts the pieces of the puzzle together, determined to find her nephew and finally get him into a safe home."-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is not a bad book. It may be a necessary one. But I didn't find it nearly as moving as most of Crutcher's other books. ( )