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Lock and key
Title:
Lock and key
Title:
Lock and key
Personal Author:
Dessen, Sarah.
Publisher Info:
New York : Viking Childrens Books/Speak, 2009, 2008.
Physical Description:
422 pages ; 22 cm.
Abstract:
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Subject Term:
Abandoned children -- Young adult fiction.

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Young adult fiction.

Child abuse -- Young adult fiction.

Emotional problems -- Young adult fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Young adult fiction.