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Title: Finding out what is important
Review: There are four main characters in this short story based in the beauty of West Virginia: 14 year-old Sarah, her older sister, Wendy, her younger brother, Charlie, and the relative who is raising all three children, Aunt Willie. While the story certainly centers on finding Charlie, a child who is mentally disabled, the reader also sees Sarah finding truth about her own self. The reader will survey many things: that all relationships in life are not perfect, that sometimes we make mistakes by assuming things, that beauty is indeed more than superficialities, that our desires can sometimes appear from places we never expect. The story has very short chapters and a very happy ending. There are some good layers of the story to unravel such as the significance of the swans to Sarah and the meaning of their return to the lake at the university. Overall, young people should find this a very entertaining story.
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