Book jacket image for Nowhere Special by Matt Wallace

Katherine Tegen

9780063254008

STARRED REVIEW

Nowhere Special

Author Matt Wallace excels at depicting realistic family scenarios, complex moral dilemmas, and good-hearted, but flawed, adults.

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Review of ‘Nowhere Special’

“A thin and scrawny thing,” Elpidia has been repeatedly attacked by her female cousins in a family feud that extends to the family’s youngest members. She lives with her Abuela in a trailer and helps out at Abuela’s cantina while dreaming of someday owning a food truck and escaping the barren Southern California desert. Her…

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