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In this tender coming-of-age story, Laurie navigates a complicated world and learns what life has to offer her. Sometimes we all need a little nurturing.
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Marie-Renée Lavoie
Marie-Renée Lavoie is an author and a teacher of literature at Maisonneuve College. Her novel Mister Roger and Me won ICI Radio-Canada's Battle of the Books—the Quebec equivalent of Canada Reads—and the Archambault Prize. She currently resides in Montreal.
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