Hubbard, Kirsten

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TITLE:
LIKE MANDARIN

AUTHOR:
Kirsten Hubbard

PUBLICATION DATE: March 8th, 2011
PUBLISHER: Delacorte Press ~ Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-385-73935-1
PRICE: $17.99



SUMMARY:
It's hard finding beauty in the badlands of Washokey, Wyoming, but 14-year-old Grace Carpenter knows it's not her mother's pageant obsessions, or the cowboy dances adored by her small-town classmates. True beauty is wild-girl Mandarin Ramey: 17, shameless and utterly carefree. Grace would give anything to be like Mandarin.

When they're united for a project, they form an unlikely, explosive friendship, packed with nights spent skinny-dipping in the canal, liberating the town's animal-head trophies, and searching for someplace magic. Grace plays along when Mandarin suggests they run away together. Blame it on the crazy-making wildwinds plaguing their badlands town.

Because all too soon, Grace discovers Mandarin's unique beauty hides a girl who's troubled, broken, and even dangerous. And no matter how hard Grace fights to keep the magic, no friendship can withstand betrayal.

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