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Greta Ulrich of the Niles Library gives you the inside scoop on quality fiction.
A review of Night Road by Kristin Hannah            When Alexa Baille first moves to Pine Island, a small, close-knit community near Seattle, she is worried that she will have another lonely, disappointing school year.  But she quickly befriends Mia Farraday, another shy, friendless girl with an attractive twin brother named Zach.   The two girls quickly discover that they have much in common.  Alexa (Lexi) encourages Mia to try out for the school play, an experience that Mia has been longing for but has lacked the self-confidence to try without having Lexi’s support. The Farraday family …

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