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Lost in America.


Lost In America

Marilyn Sachs

Roaring Brook Press

c/o The Millbrook Press

2 Old New Milford New Milford.

1 Town (1990 pop. 23,629), Litchfield co., W Conn., on the Housatonic River; inc. 1712. Situated in a dairy region, its manufactures include paper products and electronic equipment.
 Road , Brookfield, CT 06804

1596430400 $16.95 1-800-462-4703

Set just after World War II, Lost In America is the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who has come to America from France. She likes ordinary pleasures such as banana splits For the dessert, see .
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, eating chocolate, her warm red coat, and a boyfriend she met on a double date. But her aunt pressures her to take up smoking to become a "real American girl American Girl, may refer to:
  • American Girl (comics), a fictional superheroine in the Amalgam Comics universe
  • American Girl (company), a subsidiary of the American toy company Mattel known for its eponymous collection of dolls and related accessories
", and making a new life for herself in a strange land offers greater challenges every turn., and memories of losing her family to the murderous mur·der·ous  
adj.
1. Capable of, guilty of, or intending murder: a group of murderous thugs.

2.
 campaign of the Nazis haunt her. A moving story about coming of age from Marilyn Sachs, author of more than thirty-five award-winning books and coeditor of the acclaimed "The Big Book for Peace".
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Date:May 1, 2005
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