TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dessen,Sarah
TI  - Lock and key
SN  - 9780142414729 (pbk.)
AV  - PZ7.D455 Lo 2009
U1  - [Fic] 22
PY  - 2009///, c2008
CY  - New York
PB  - Speak
KW  - Abandoned children
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - Families
KW  - Child abuse
KW  - Emotional problems
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Family life
KW  - sears
KW  - Self-realization
N1  - Wilson's Senior High School, January 2009; School Library Journal, May 2008; Pub Weekly, February 2008; Booklist, February 2008; Horn Book, October 2008; Bulletin (Center for Children's books), May 2008; Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2008; Kirkus Review, April 2008; Library Media Connection, November 2008; Kliatt, March 2008; Wilson's Senior High School; School Library Journal; Pub Weekly; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources; Young Adult; 840; Lexile
N2  - When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others
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