The Turnabout Shop
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ISBN: 0380731924 / Publisher: Harpercollins, May 2000
When Livvy is orphaned, she is sent to Baltimore to live with her mother's college friend Jessie Barnes, the owner of the Turnabout Shop, an antiques store, and Livvy must learn to start over in a much different world.
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After her free-spirited mother dies, Livvy is uprooted from her New York home and sent to Baltimore to live with her mother's old college friend, a woman Livvy has never heard of. Jessie is nothing like Livvy's mother: She's sensible, likes to weave, and doesn't even have pierced ears. What she does have is The Turnabout Shop, where she and her mother sell antiques, and a family larger than any Livvy has ever known. She also has a bunch of warm, quirky neighbors, including a girl Livvy's age. Set down to live among strangers, Livvy begins again from scratch, discovering that even without her mother, she can still learn and laugh and love, and take root in a whole different world. 00-01 Charlie May Simon Book Award Reading List
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