The Silver Coach

C. S. Adler. Avon Books, $2.5 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-380-75498-4

Sisters Chris and Jackie come to terms with their parents' divorce when they spend the summer with their grandmother in the Vermont woods, in Adler's probing novel. Ages 8-12. (Nov.)

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