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  <title><![CDATA[Opposite of Love]]></title>
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  <default_description>Madge is biraccial and her light brown skin has made her feel like an outcast, until she spends a week with her cousin in New York City. There she befriends a small boy with skin the color of her own and no one to care for him. On impulse, Madge takes the boy back home with her. Ultimately, she finds that caring for a child isn't easy, and neither is finding a middle ground between love and indifference.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">6</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">9</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has Madge a biracial teenager who lives in a predominantly white Pennsylvania town with her white mother and has not ever met her Jamican dad.  She feels like she is out of place and is always being treated bad because of her race.  While on vacation in New York city Madge discovers a 4 ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51936195">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[....half black, half white: and in a black and white world. Madge says shes exactly that. Madge was raised by her 'criminal' mother who has been in and out of jail so many times. Her mom is from England and her estranged father whom shes never met is from Jamaica. Madge has always had a hard time in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49767901">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Helen Benedict has a gift for how family speaks; the short-hand, the barbs that are not meant to wound--too much--and the depth of concern undimmed by time and distance.  She also nails how adults confidently, often erroneously assume they know exactly what kids are thinking.  There's a child's sens...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7763345">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Madge has grown up in a small town in Pennsylvania where she is the only black person.  Her mom is an ex-con, and living illegally in the U.S.  The only solid adult in her life is her aunt Liz who runs a beauty parlor.  Then when visiting her cousin in New York she sees a young kid in the park sprai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19554961">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overblown crazy &quot;problem&quot; novel. Deals with issues of romance, racism, being bi-racial, drugs, prison, deportation, neglect and unrealistically stealing or &quot;adopting&quot; a child and trying to raise him on your own. <br/><br/> If you can suspend all disbelief, this is a great book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20018608">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great book about racial differences. Magde grew up in a greatly different environment and I believe that tats wat makes all the difference. It tells hte story of first love and how one should try ot make a difference in this world.. no matter how small]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended at the March WASHYARG meeting.  Mixed race teen, kidnapping story.  Sounds great.]]></body>
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