The Usual Rules

Joyce Maynard

Original title: The usual rules

first published 2003 Thorndike Press, 2003 647 pages

Thorndike Press large print women's fiction series

"It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn - a perfect September day. Wendy's heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has cras...

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The Usual Rules paperback · 2004 · St. Martin's Griffin · 400 pages · 9780312283698
The usual rules edition · 2003 · Thorndike Press · 647 pages
The usual rules edition · 2003 · St. Martin's Press · 390 pages

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