A Good Place for Maggie by Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
	List Price:   $9.95 Unit Price:   $7.96 You Save:   $1.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   1558853723 ISBN-13:   9781558853720 Publisher:   Arte Publico Press Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   January 2002 Pages:   160 Format:   Trade Paper 2 Ages:   11 and UP
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION COUNTRY LIFE_FICTION CALIFORNIA_FICTION GRANDPARENTS_FICTION
Description/Notes
Sixteen-year-old Maggie Cruz leaves her mother's and stepfathers's big city Los Angeles home in order to lead a simpler life in her grandfather's small town house and gains fresh perspective on her life. When Maggie hopes to reconnect with the memories of her late father during a visit with her beloved grandfather, a resident of Twisted Creek, she is drawn into a battle over the progress that she detests and the pitfalls of life in an isolated town. Soon, Maggie begins to question her own need to escape the problems she has left in Los Angeles. Hoping to escape the lonely house her mother keeps in Los Angeles, Maggie goes to join her grandfather in the isolated town of Twisted Creek. But from the minute Maggie arrives, her new home is a major adjustment. After navigating the neglected road into the town, Maggie discovers a place where there are very few cars, no cell phone reception, no TV, and none of the other modern comforts of home. Maggie is inadvertently drawn into a battle over the progress that she detests back home an the pitfalls of life in an isolated town.