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Almost Eden / Anita Horrocks.

by Horrocks, Anita, 1958-

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Tundra Books, c2006.

Mennonites -- Juvenile fiction.

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9780887767425 (2006 Tundra Books pbk.)

0887767427 (2006 Tundra Books pbk.)

284 p. ; 20 cm.

"It is the hot prairie summer of her twelfth year and Elsie is at a crossroads. Her beloved mother who is mentally ill has been hospitalized, and Elsie thinks that the breakdown is all her fault. Mental illness is simply not discussed in Elsie's close-knit Mennonite community and she is rudderless. Nothing Elsie does seems to go right: there's no pleasing her bossy older sister; she forgets to feed the cat, so her father gives it away; she's supposed to watch out for her younger sister, but she lets her come home alone from the swimming pool (despite the lurking menace of a weird stranger around town); and she bargains with God to make her mother well again - to no evident avail. Almost Eden is a beautiful portrait of a town, a family, and a young woman willing to challenge the things that don't make sense to her, and to fix the things that don't seem right."--Back cover.

Grade 5-8. Booklist.

Canadian fiction, Juvenile.

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