Oreo/Fran Ross 240 pg.This is a hilarious satire written in 1974 and recently re-released with a forward by Harryette Mullen. This book didn't really find an audience in '74 and the forward explains that is was so ahead of its time. Of course it would have been ahead of me in the 70's but in my defense, those were my elementary school years. Oreo is Christine Clark. She can take care of herself in the most basic sense of the word. She goes to NYC to seek out her father who left when she was very little. Her grandmother spends a few days "packing a lunch" for her, the food fills a duffel bag. She doesn't know where her father is but she is smart and capable and he left some clues. This book is about her getting ready for and then taking the journey. It is funny, sometime silly, and always awesome.
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