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When My Sister Started Kissing

Helen Frost

Told in verse through alternating voices, this novel follows sisters Claire, age eleven, and Abigail, age thirteen, during a summer at their lake house. Their father and pregnant stepmother are there as well, while Abigail’s new interest in boys changes her relationship with Claire. Claire misses the family as it once was and resents being asked to conceal Abigail’s rule-breaking. The approaching birth of a baby brother adds another shift to the family.

This book appears on 3 reading lists across 2 editions from 3 organizations.

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Book details

Themes
Change And Transitions · Family · Growing Up · Siblings
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published
March 14, 2017
ISBN-13
9780374303037
Language
English
Cooperative Children's Book Center, University of Wisconsin–MadisonCCBC Choices
  • 2018Fiction for Children
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