Title Matasha / Pamela Erens.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Ig Kids, [2021]
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Description	295 pages ; 22 cm
Summary	"It's 1970's Chicago. Eleven-year-old Matasha Wax is in the sixth grade and just starting to feel the pressures of growing up. Her best friend Jean has been blowing her off, while her parents are in a standoff over her mother's desire to adopt a refugee from Vietnam. And while the bullies in school have started to grow breasts and inches, Matasha remains a puny four-foot-four--which means she will need growth hormone shots, and she is terrified of needles. Apart from her daily reading of the advice columns in the newspaper, keeping up with the Patty Hearst and Watergate scandals, and tracking her parents' deteriorating marriage, Matasha is fixated by the story of Martin Kimmel, a nine-year-old boy who disappeared a few months ago, and whose body has yet to be found. But none of these ongoing problems could have prepared Matasha for her mother's sudden disappearance. When the letters start coming from Switzerland, she knows something is very, very wrong--but no one will tell her what's going on, so Matasha has to figure it all out for herself."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject	Middle school girls -- Juvenile fiction.
	Dwarfism, Pituitary -- Juvenile fiction.
	Bullying -- Juvenile fiction.
	Missing persons -- Juvenile fiction.
	Missing children -- Juvenile fiction.
	Nineteen seventies -- Juvenile fiction.
	Chicago (Ill.) -- Juvenile fiction.
	JUVENILE FICTION / General.
	Dwarfism, Pituitary. (OCoLC)fst00899971
	Middle school girls. (OCoLC)fst02016976
	Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
	Nineteen seventies. (OCoLC)fst01037812
	Young adult fiction. (OCoLC)fst01183080
	Illinois -- Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01204048
	Middle school girls -- Fiction.
	Dwarfism, Pituitary -- Fiction.
	Missing children -- Fiction.
	Nineteen seventies -- Fiction.
	Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form	Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
	Bildungsromans.
	Historical fiction.
	Detective and mystery fiction.
ISBN	9781632462008 (paperback)
	1632462001 (paperback)
	9781632461254 (hardcover)
	1632461250 (hardcover)

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