Turtle back book rebound by Covercraft [Scholastic] for the classroom trade: they by text blocks from the mass market paperback publisher and case them in hardcovers with the same covers, and sell to school systems for use in reading classrooms. First printing (thus) with complete number line. Tight, flat, square, sharp book. Pages toned. Head dent. A bit of surface soiling to the boards which can be addressed with an alcohol wipe without damaging the covers.

Nominee: VT Golden Dome Book Award Nominee 1993

After years spent idolizing and championing her long-absent and much-reviled Uncle Willy, seventeen-year-old Susan, a promising artist, meets him by chance in Boston where she is spending the summer and determines, against all advice, to prove her irrevocable love and devotion. After years spent idolizing and championing her long-absent and much-reviled Uncle Willy, seventeen-year-old Susan, a promising artist, meets him by chance in Boston where she is spending the summer A powerful coming-of-age story from the award-winning author of The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier. Bored with her life in Utah, Sus5an Smith (the 5 is silent) jumps at the chance to move to Boston and work on her art. But she finds herself in an emotional dilemma, when she is attracted to her newly-divorced uncle--who's twice her age. for Young Adults.