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What My Sister Remembered
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What My Sister Remembered
, maybe?Here is a short description from Booklist:
Not many children can say that their mother and their aunt are the same person. Eleven-year-old Molly DeMateo can--although her older sister Beth cannot. Aunt Karen and Uncle Walter adopted Molly after her parents were killed in a car accident, but they didn't adopt Beth; instead, Beth went to live with wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Lattimore. Now, after eight years apart, the girls are reunited, and Molly discovers why her sister really left the family.
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Kate (Feathered Turtle Press Reviews)
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Yes! That's it! I read the preview and I remembered the part where she can't decide what to wear!Thank you! I put off looking for it for a while because I had more impressions of it than concrete memories and they were so vague.
Edit: Searching the author also turned up some other books I read as a child. Bonus.
i read the book around 1999/2000 and i was probably 6/7. the content seemed more serious and a bit above my reading level at the time. i don't remember anything about the cover and i think it took place in a mid-sized to large North American city, anywhere from the 60s to the 90s. i think it was skewered towards realistic fiction and/or coming of age. i don't think i finished reading it.
the main character was a girl who had a sister (possibly twin sister) but they didn't live in the same home anymore. i think their parents may have died when they were younger (i'm tempted to say in a car accident) and they wound up with different guardians. i THINK the girl lived with her grandparents or her aunt and uncle or another relative. i think there was some talk of her meeting up with or visiting her sister.
most of what i read definitely took place in the summer. i remember references to summer clothes and things like popsicles and freezies/ice pops/otter pops/whatever.
it MAY have started off with (or i might be confusing it with another book) a mention of the car accident happening when they were younger.
i'm sorry i don't have many clear details. i remember being determined to get through as much of the book as possible and not fall asleep. i was reading it in the school library but for whatever reason i never checked it out.