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Teenage runaway Chrissie Peretti, with a troubled past, is living in an Arkansas town. She runs into a troubled 12-year-old named Dare, who becomes her new friend and potential mentor. Chrissie starts to feel attracted to Luke, a 19-year-old boy who she meets at work. When they get a job at a restaurant together, Chrissie decides to live with Dare, taking on his foster brotherhood to start a new life in the small town of Excelsior Springs, Arkansas.
First publish date: 1982
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Crescent Dragonwagon
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