Chasing Normal
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Annotation: When her mean, grouchy grandmother in Texas has a heart attack and she and father go to help, twelve-year-old Mieka meets her cousins' family and wishes for their "normal" type of life.
Catalog Number:
#23926
Binding Type:
Perma-Bound
Details
Publisher:
Hyperion
Copyright:
2008
Pages:
193 p.
Available:
Yes
New Title:
Yes
ISBN:
1-423-10340-8
Dewey:
F
LCCN:
2007022418
Dimensions:
21 cm.
Subject Heading:
Grandmothers. Fiction, Father-daughter relationship. Fiction, Interpersonal relations. Fiction, Cousins. Fiction, Family life. Texas. Fiction, Houston (Tex.). Fiction
Language:
english
Reviewing Agencies:
ALA Booklist, Horn Book, Wilson's Children's Catalog
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Word Count:
34,383
Reading Level:
4.2
Interest Level:
3-6
Accelerated Reader:
reading level: 4.2
/
points: 5.0
/
quiz: 123548
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grade: MG
Horn Book
Twelve-year-old Mieka and her artist father fly to Houston to visit her estranged grandmother, staying with Mieka's aunt and cousins in their luxurious home. Papademetriou captures well the awkwardness of trying to fit into a family. There is little drama, but the Houston setting is vividly drawn, and Mieka is an observant narrator, concluding that "normal" is something that doesn't exist.