But it’s too late. Scarlett has already disappeared across the street. She’s probably home smearing gloss on those pouty lips while I hold her whiny sister’s lollipop fingers, standing next to my black-toothed best friend, waiting to see the fattest boy in the world.

Notes

Notes

1

Fresh spinach leaves may be substituted for taro leaves.

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KEEPER OF THE NIGHT. Copyright © 2003 by Kimberly Willis Holt.

Q&A © 2005 by Random House, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Laurel-Leaf, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

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Holt, Kimberly Willis. Keeper of the night / Kimberly Willis Holt.
p. cm.
Summary: Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl living on the island of Guam,
and her family try to cope with the death of Isabel’s mother,
who committed suicide.
[1. Grief—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction. 3. Family problems—Fiction.
4. Guam—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.H74023 Ke 2003 [Fic]—dc21 2002027553

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