Alison Acheson's Mud Girl (Coteau $9.95) is the story of Abi Jones, a lonely teenager who lives with her father in a strange house by the Fraser River, bereft of cool clothes or a mother. The odd house earns her the name "Mud Girl."; Things look up during the summer before her last year of high school when Abi gains a Big Sister, lands a job cleaning houses and meets Jude, a cute guy who has a two-year-old son.

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[BCBW 2006]