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Chase, gordies brother, is wrecked by his addiction and so is the entire family. Tweaked by katherine holubitsky summary from the publishers website. Katherine holubitsky tells a truthful and emotional story. She has also written last summer in agatha, the hippie house and the mountain th. Katherine holubitskys first novel, alone at ninety foot orca, won the cla book of the year for young adults.
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Tweaked book columbus metropolitan library bibliocommons. Gordie and his older brother chase are every kid, building forts in the ravine. Readers will sympathize with gordie and marvel that he can hold on to his own values as he watches his brother selfdestruct. Katherine holubitsky is a published author of childrens books and young adult books.
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The book, alone at ninety foot, started out as a short story holubitsky wrote in her free time while working in a city highschool library in western canada. Katherine holubitskys first novel, alone at ninety foot, orca book publishers, won the cla book of the year for young adults and the iode violet downey book award. Electronic books fiction juvenile works juvenile fiction romans, nouvelles, etc. Katherine holubitsky author katherine holubitsky s first novel, alone at ninety foot, orca book publishers, won the cla book of the year for young adults and the iode violet downey book award. Tweaked ebook by katherine holubitsky rakuten kobo. When katherine holubitskys first published novel won the canadian library associations 1999 young adult book award, perhaps no one was more surprised than the author herself. Charlie has been treated poorly by the two brothers, but he has endured. Jul 08, 20 tweaked is a fictitious novel published by orca book publishers. Tweaked is a hardhitting story of the power of a very popular drug.
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