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by Sharon Creech

illustrated by Pepe Botella

1 So the story of The Wanderer is that the main character, Sophie, was in a boating
accident with her parents as a young kid. They died; she survived and was eventually
(at age 10) adopted. Now she’s going on a trip across the Atlantic with her three
(adoptive) uncles and two cousins. The cousins know she’s adopted, but Sophie

is weirdly in denial about it and talks about her adoptive parents and grandfather
Bompie as though she’s known them her whole life. This puzzles her cousins.
What really happened is sort of a mystery that unfolds over the course of the novel.

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