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'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock

MY ABANDONMENT, by Peter Rock. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 240 pages, $22.

Friends, jewelry, trips to the cinema. Caroline, though 13, has none of these. She does have Father and a hidden garden. She owns a set of encyclopedias (up to L), a blue ribbon and Randy, a toy horse inside which she keeps "a scrap of paper rolled up tight where I have written a secret in case I ever forget it." Caroline...

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