title: Kinship (Laurel-Leaf Books)
author:  Trudy Krisher 
description: This companion to Spite Fences, said PW, is a "wholly convincing" portrait of a stir-crazy 15-year-old girl living in a Georgia trailer park in the early 1960s. Ages 12-up. <br />Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Before Familiar Woods
  
  A NOVEL
  
  IAN PISARCIK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  To Sarah. You are home to me.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  I owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to my agent, Alec Shane, for his belief
  and unwavering encouragement, and to my incomparable editor, Jenny Chen, who
  pushed me to make this a better book every step of the way—along with the
  entire team at Crooked Lane Books.
  
  This novel benefited from a couple of early readers. First, the brilliant
  Genevieve Gagne-Hawes, who pulled me from the slush pile and dusted me off.
  Also, Rebecca Starks, whose early insights were invaluable.
  
  I want to thank my parents for surrounding me with books and for reading to me
  every night as a child. These are some of my most important memories. You are
  kind and wise people, and I owe you so much. To Tania, my formidable sister,
  thank you for accompanying me on the adventures and misadventures of our
  youth. There’s no one I would rather have done it with.
  
  Sarah, because I can’t thank you en