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Kinsey-Warnock, Natalie.
TRUE COLORS
New York : Knopf, 2012
IL 3-6, RL 5.1
ISBN 0375860991
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Blue doesn't know anything about her family.  She was left on a doorstep as an infant and Hannah has been taking care of her ever since.  Hannah is a widow and it has always been just Blue and Hannah.  But Blue dreams of finding her real mother and keeps looking.  Blue doesn't have any real friends in this small Vermont town and looks forward to summers when a family from the city comes to spend the summer.  Nadine and Blue spend the summers together and the two are best friends.  But this summer is different.  Nadine is different and Blue is afraid that their friendship may not be as important to Nadine as it is to Blue.  This is a summer when things are going to change.

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