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Name: It Takes a Village

Author: Christine Stinson
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"In her second novel, Christine Stinson does an excellent job ... This is Australian life in the 1950s when everyone knew who lived in all the houses in the street." - The Age newspaper.

Eight-year-old Sophie lives in a world of secrets and whispers. She has just been told that she's a "bastard," and her father's identity is unknown. With only her reclusive grandfather to raise her, and her neighbours expecting her to be a delinquent like her mother, she struggles to find her place in the world. She soon learns that life is rarely simple, love is always complicated, and sometimes it takes more than blood ties to make a family.

Christine Stinson is the Australian author of Getting Even With Fran.