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  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    eBook (Arthur A. Levine Books, April 30, 2013)
    Norma Fox Mazer's remarkable story of two sisters fighting to survive against a world without caring.In the sad, shabby trailer where Em Thurkill lived her first fourteen years, suffering her father's alcoholic rages and her mother's deathly silence, and in the three she lived trapped with her violent, unstable sister, there seems more than enough to end even the dream of hope.Yet Em Thurkill's story is a story of how hope outlives brutality. It is a story of one girl's sweetness, and almost unbearable pain. Heartbreaking, mesmerizing, and ultimately transcendent, this novel is a tribute to the astonishing resilience of the human soul.
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  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Mass Market Paperback (Scholastic Paperbacks, Jan. 1, 2000)
    Norma Fox Mazer's remarkable story of two sisters fighting to survive against a world without caring, reissued in a 10th anniversary paperback edition, to coincide with Mazer's new novel in hardcover.In the sad, shabby trailer where Em Thurkill lived her first fourteen years, suffering her father's alcoholic rages and her mother's deathly silence, and in the three she lived trapped with her violent, unstable sister, there seems more than enough to end even the dream of hope.Yet Em Thurkill's story is a story of how hope outlives brutality. It is a story of one girl's sweetness, and almost unbearable pain. Heartbreaking, mesmerizing, and ultimately transcendent, this novel is a tribute to the astonishing resilience of the human soul.
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  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Hardcover (Arthur A. Levine Books, Oct. 1, 1997)
    In a survivor tale about how hope outlives brutality, young Em Thurkill struggles to maintain her dreams in a life of almost unbearable pain as the victim of sibling abuse.
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  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 1, 2000)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts 17-year-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents and then later on their own.
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  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Hardcover (Thorndike Pr, Feb. 6, 2008)
    The death of her abusive, manipulative older sister prompts seventeen-year-old Em to remember their unpleasant life together, with their parents and then later on their own.
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  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2008-04-18, April 18, 2008)
    Presenting Newbery Honor author Norma Fox Mazer's unforgettable survivor tale of how hope outlives brutality. Em Thurkill, a girl full of sweetness in a life of almost unbearable pain, is at the center of Mazer's heartbreaking, mesmerizing, and ultimately uplifting story.
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  • When she was good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Unknown Binding (Produced in braille for the Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, by Associated Services for the Blind, March 15, 1999)
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  • When She Was Good

    Norma Fox Mazer

    Library Binding (Demco Media, April 16, 2000)
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