title: Families in Context: An Introduction
author:  Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman 
description: Marilyn Ihinger-Tallman is at Washington State University. Teresa M. Cooney is at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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  # Tallahassee Higgins
  
  
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  CLARION BOOKS  
  
  
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  Clarion Books  
  
  
  a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint  
  
  
  215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10003  
  
  
  Copyright © 1987 by Mary Downing Hahn  
  
  
  First Clarion paperback edition, 2006.
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
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  _Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_  
  
  
  Hahn, Mary Downing.  
  
  
  Tallahassee Higgins.  
  
  
  Summary: Tallahassee Higgins enjoys the vagabond  
  
  
  lifestyle she lives with her free-spirited mother,  
  
  
  but when Mother goes to Los Angeles to try her luck in  
  
  
  TV and movies, Tallahassee is placed with her uncle, whose  
  
  
  conventional suburban lifestyle makes her question her  
  
  
  mother's values—and her own.  
  
  
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