Wandering Girl

Glenyse Ward. Fawcett Books, $3.99 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-449-70414-1

This eloquent autobiography concerns the daughter of Aborigines who fights her way out of an orphanage and into accepted society. Ages 12-up. (June)

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