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Kwasney, Michelle D.
BABY BLUE
New York : Holt, 2004
IL YA
ISBN 0805070508
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After her father dies in a drowning accident, Blue's world is turned upside down.  And then her mother remarries and things get much worse.  The new stepfather abuses her mother.  And her mother seems unable to do anything about it.  Her older sister, Star, runs away from the unhappy home leaving Blue even more devastated.  Can Blue  muster the courage she will need to convince her sister to return and to help her mother realize that she has to get out of this relationship?
SUBJECTS:     Wife abuse -- Fiction.
                        Family problems -- Fiction.
                        Stepfathers -- Fiction.
                        Sisters -- Fiction.
                        Massachusetts -- Fiction.

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