Lucy Unstrung

Name: Lucy Unstrung
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ISBN: 9780887769634

Carole Lazar

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Tundra Books
15 May 2011

Picture books; General fiction (Children's&YA); Family & home stories (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: family issues (Children's&YA)

LUCY UNSTRUNG is great middle grade fiction about a young girl TRYING to get her very young mother to grow up.

Lucy's mother was just a teen when she gave birth.

At thirteen, Lucy is a sensible, almost rigid thirteen year-old trying to keep her life together (and her mother's desire to relive her lost teenage years in check), learning all the while that there are problems she must come to terms with and solve for herself.

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.

By: Carole Lazar
Imprint: Tundra Books
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 194mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 211g
ISBN: 9780887769634
ISBN 10: 0887769632
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 15 May 2011
Recommended Age: From 10 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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Lucy Unstrung

Carole Lazar

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