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Mango, Karen N.
JUST FOR THE SUMMER
New York : Harper & Row, 1990.
IL 5+
Jenny Smith decides to take on Rollo, her next door neighbor as a summer project. Rollo is anti- social and Jenny thinks she can turn him around. She's the perfect friend. Just what Rollo needs to get through the tough time of feeling guilty about his father's death. Jenny doesn't bank on her falling in love with Rollo, though that's just what happens. Set in summertime New Hampshire, this is an intense story about genius and high expectations.
SUBJECTS:     Emotional problems -- Fiction.
              Friendship -- Fiction.

 

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