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Lucy Unstrung

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Lucy Unstrung

Contributors:

By (Author) Carole Lazar

ISBN:

9780887769634

Publisher:

Tundra Books

Imprint:

Tundra Books

Publication Date:

10th August 2010

Country:

Canada

Classifications

Readership:

Children

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members
Childrens / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction
Childrens picture books

Dewey:

FIC

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 135mm, Height 194mm, Spine 12mm

Weight:

211g

Description

Teens who get pregnant and raise their babies are often in the news. But what about those children who are growing up with parents scarcely half a generation older than themselves

In this wise and funny first novel by Carole Lazar, Lucy is a sensible, perhaps even rigid, thirteen year old who is convinced that Grandma, God, and the Catholic Church are on her side. She tries hard to make her twenty-eight-year-old mother see the error of her ways. It's not that her mother is wild - in their household even a fancy coffee causes a scene - but she has had to put off her own teenage years and she's chaffing at the restraints on her life. Lucy is faced with the loss of her family, her home, her school, and even her best friend. As she struggles to preserve what she can from her past life, she finds that while Grandma, God, and her church are still there for her, there are problems she has to solve for herself.

Author Bio

CAROLE LAZAR practiced law for ten years in British Columbia, before serving as a provincial court judge from 1989 until 2008. Lucy Unstrung is her first novel.

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