Hillary's need to establish roots and her mildly conflicted loyalty to her parents are thoughtfully conveyed, and the conclusion, realistic rather than easy, ends the story on a poignant note. This sensitively wrought novel contains enough unique personalities and interesting twists to keep the audience absorbed. She makes friends with two classmates, one the leader of the popular clique and the other a misfit, and the borrowed house begins to feel like a home.

Gradually, however, her surroundings begin seeming more solid than illusory. When Hillary's ''gypsy'' parents, who make their living selling handmade ''gizmos'' at street fairs and bazaars all over the country, accept a house-sitting job in Ashland, Calif., Hillary assumes it is another of the Watchers' experiments. Koss (The Trouble with Zinny Weston) portrays Hillary with such sympathy and wit that readers understand her Watchers game as a comic expression of the loneliness Hillary cannot express. She wonders if buildings, towns and even people really exist or are merely images planted in her imagination by invisible ''Watchers,'' who wait to see how she will react to new settings and situations. OL14919993W Pages 158 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201126145503 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 245 Scandate 20201124104820 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781584855910 Tts_version 4.Seventh-grader Hillary has moved around so much that nothing in her environment seems to have a past or a future. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:07:00 Associated-names Howe, Philip, ill Boxid IA40002705 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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