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Supplee, Audra.
I ALMOST LOVE YOU, EDDIE CLEGG
Atlanta : Peachtree, 2004.
IL 5-8, RL 4.7
ISBN 1561453080
It's the last year of junior high and Asa is determined to make the most of it.  She decides to become popular but things don't always turn out as we plan!  On the home front, Asa is hiding a secret.  Her stepfather, Eddie Clegg, is beginning to drink way too much.  And he is hiding the bottle in her closet!  Eddie makes her promise not to tell her mother.  After all, her mother is working late most nights and doesn't see the change.  But can this be kept a secret for long?  What do you think will happen if her mother finds out?.
SUBJECTS:     Stepfathers -- Fiction.
                        Alcoholism -- Fiction.
                        Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
                        Unemployment -- Fiction.

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