Holiday House.Holiday House 425 Madison Ave., New York NY 10017 www.holidayhouse.com Three delightful, reads are picks for teens seeking something different. Masry Amato's The Naked Mole-Rat Letters (0823-419274, $16.95) tells of a father who begins a long-distance romance, and a pre-teen who sends fabricated emails to the zookeeper lover in an attempt to sabotage their relationship. When the zookeeper responds unexpectedly with witty letters and advice, Frankie learns about honestly, evolving friendships, and maturity. Michael J. Daly's Space Station Rat (08234-18669, $15.95) joins Miss Frisby and other rat-and-mouse fantasies in presenting a Modified lavender rat who escapes from a special lab and stows away on a space station. A lonely young boy attracts her attention, and soon Jeff thinks he has a new email friend?even though the topics always seem to be about food. An unusual friendship evolves between two misfits in this fun fantasy. Leslie J. Wyatt's Poor Is Just A Starting Place (0823418847, $16.95) tells of a teen during the Great Depression Great Depression, in U.S. history, the severe economic crisis supposedly precipitated by the U.S. stock-market crash of 1929. Although it shared the basic characteristics of other such crises (see depression), the Great Depression was unprecedented in its length and in the wholesale poverty and tragedy it inflicted on society. Economists have disagreed over its causes, but certain causative factors are generally accepted. who is tired of being poor and living with her family. She's determined to escape her family's farm, and her life of poverty--but finishing school is her first vow. A realistic story of poverty and Depression survival. |
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