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Twelve-year-old Alice, an orphan who has never been adopted because of her physical handicap and difficult personality, is shocked to discover she has an identical twin sister living nearby.
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Missing sisters
1998, Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
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- 1st Hyperion Paperback ed.
0786812737 9780786812738
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"Ages 10 and up"--cover p. [4].
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Alice's life is about to change.She's a skinny orphan. She's never been able to hear too well. And she can't speak too well, either. The only person who seems to care for her—one of the nuns at the orphanage—gets taken away from Alice in a freak accident.And then one day somebody calls Alice by the wrong name.Miami, she says.Miami Shaw.Miami Shaw, who may be Alice's twin sister.Who lives only a few miles away.Who has what Alice has always dreamed of—a whole wonderful family. But is there a place in that family for Alice?From bestselling author Gregory Maguire comes a funny, heartrending story of the strength of sisterhood and the struggle to find a family of one's own.
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