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__The True Colors of Caitlynne Jackson__ by Carol Lynch Williams ISBN: 0385322496 c1997 168 pages

pp. 22 (bottom of page) and 27 (where mom shows a totally different side) p. 38 p. 46 p. 69
 * Good sections to read aloud:**

Caity and her younger sister, Cara, live with an abusive mother. One minute their mother is kind and loving and the next minute she is angry and abusive. Caity and Cara try to stay out of her way and behave. One late evening, their mother packs up her car and leaves Caity and Cara to fend for themselves with the food in the house and some money in the cookie jar. At first, the girls are a little nervous and a little happy about their abusive mother being gone. They actually don’t think it will last long at all, but when it does, and when the food is gone and the money is out, they are unsure of where to turn.
 * Summary**:

YA fiction---child abuse, abandoned children, mothers and daughters, sisters, personality disorders

©Jennifer Lang - WDMS - 2001