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her prone-to-brawling companion

reassure any child concerned about becoming an older sibling

Angel must bear the responsibility of tending to their house alone

Rolling the R's Format:Paperback which The New York TimesIlluminated by pop fantasies, Donna Summer disco tracks and teen passion, the fiercely earnest characters in Rolling the R's come to life against a background of burning dreams and neglect in a small 1970s Hawaiian community. In his daring first novel, R. Zamora Linmark treats the music of the Bee Gees and schoolyard bullying as equally formative experiences in the lives of a group of Filipino fourth graders living in Kalihi, Honolulu, who call