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One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother uproots her from Florida without a second thought. Ratchet is on a train to Maine for a summer with relatives within the blink of an eye. But these aren't just any relatives. Ratchet's ninety-two-year old great-aunts,... Read Full Overview

Love under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable... Read Full Overview

With dark humor, touching insight, and uncensored language, this Newbery Honor author crafts an irresistible tale of life's unforgettable moments. While Ratchet Clark's life has never been precisely normal, her mother's decision to send her to visit two ancient great aunts in... Read Full Overview

This is the story of 13-year-old Ratchet Clark, a lonely girl with a deformity on her shoulder blade, whose mother sends her off for the summer to stay with two distant relatives in a huge house in a remote place in Maine. They turn out to be 91-year-old twins, Tilly and Penpen,... Read Full Overview

Love under trying circumstances One night out of the blue, Ratchet Clark's ill-natured mother tells her that Ratchet will be leaving their Pensacola apartment momentarily to take the train up north. There she will spend the summer with her aged relatives Penpen and Tilly, inseparable... Read Full Overview

... Tilly was tiny and very, very thin. Penpen was round and jolly and didn't look all that old. Not nearly as old as Tilly, but Ratchet knew that she must be because the first thing that Tilly said to her when she got in their waiting car was, "We are twins. We were born together,... Read Full Overview