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Middletown

Sarah Moon

Ages: 12+

Published: 2021

Publisher: Levine Querido

ISBN: 978-1-64614-042-8

Keywords: Alcoholism, absent parents, sisters, sisterhood, siblings, LGBTQ+, suburbia, addiction, blended families, single parent families

Thirteen-year-old Eli and her older sister Anna lean on each other to feign a life of normalcy when their single mother gets sent to rehab.