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BfK No. 63 - July 1990

Cover Story
The photographs on our front cover this month are taken from Round Buildings, Square Buildings & Buildings That Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip Isaacson. Hardback (0 86203 447 7) and paperback (0 86203 468 X) are published by Julia MacRae.

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Rabble Starkey

Lois Lowry
(Lions)
978-0006737643, RRP £2.99, Paperback
10-14 Middle/Secondary
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Published in Dent hardback under the title The Road Ahead, this is a warm, humorous, sympathetic novel about growing up and the ways in which people change. The narrator, Rabble (short for Parable), is a likeable, forthright 12-year-old at the start of the book. Her young widowed mother is a hired help to the Bigelow family, whose daughter is Rabble's close friend. When Mrs Bigelow suffers a mental breakdown, Rabble and her mother become more closely involved with the family, until Rabble begins to think of them as her own relations - but this situation cannot last, and difficult decisions have to be made.

Reviewer: 
Linda Newbery
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