TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - teenagers
KW - social workers
KW - suburbs
KW - foster care
KW - people with disabilities
AU - Lee McClain
AB - Rose Graham, 15, who cares for her sister with Down Syndrome, shoplifts groceries and is caught. When Catholic social workers separate the two siblings, Rose is placed in an affluent suburban home and high school where she struggles to adapt and to reunite with her kid sister.
C1 - 2000s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Chateau; Carnegie Science Center
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Rose Graham, 15, who cares for her sister with Down Syndrome, shoplifts groceries and is caught. When Catholic social workers separate the two siblings, Rose is placed in an affluent suburban home and high school where she struggles to adapt and to reunite with her kid sister.
PB - SMOOCH / Dorchester Publishing Company
PP - New York
PY - 2005
RN - Lee Tobin McClain (1960— ) is a writer and teacher in Greensburg, Westmoreland County. She is professor of English at Seton Hill University's Master of Fine Arts in Popular Fiction Program.
EP - 181 p.
TI - My Abnormal Life
ER -