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What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci - Knosit

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What Happened to Lani Garver

by Carol Plum-Ucci

Young Adult

2002

Sixteen-year-old Claire is unable to face her fears about a recurrence of her leukemia, her eating disorder, her need to fit in with the popular crowd on Hackett Island, and her mother's alcoholism until the enigmatic Lani Garver helps her get control of her life at the risk of his own.

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