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All the Greys on Greene Street
by Laura Tucker
Illustrator: Kelly Murphy
Ages: 9+
Published: 2019
Publisher: Viking/Penguin YR/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-451-47953-2
Keywords: Mystery, Art, Mother-Daughter relationships, Depression
Twelve-year-old Olympia's father fled New York's Soho for France and her mother won't leave her bed. Can artistic Olympia mend her world? Frequent pencil illustrations.