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To Come and Go Like Magic

by Katie Pickard Fawcett

Ages: 12+

Published: 2010

Publisher: Knopf

ISBN: 978-0-375-85846-8

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Lyrical vignettes of an important year in the life of a twelve-year-old Chilean girl show how she grows up in a small Kentucky town in the 70s and comes to understand her family, friends, and home.