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Maura's Angel (An Avon Camelot Book)

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Maura has a difficult life,growing up in war times and helping to take care of her severely retarded sister(who it turns out has a pure soul).She was also a twin,left twin-less after birth,like Elvis Presley was.Her twin was named Angela.One day Maura meets a girl who looks enough like her to be a twin,except that she is flawless without scars and stuff like that.Her name is Angela.Turns out she is an angel,and she has come to help Maura in all she does,and the longer she stays the more human she becomes.But the day comes that Angela must leave,in a human and a noble way.

Lynne Reid Banks is a unique author.A particularly good line was Angela's, "Our souls are the same" when speaking of males and females.We live in a twisted MArs and Venus,scientific mumbo-jumbo world,so thank you Lynne,for letting Angela say it so simply , Our souls are made the same.
We need more minds like Lynne Reid Banks.

Maura's Angel is a wonderful and unpredictable. The angel"Angela" is beautifully portrayed and the author did a fine job in Angela's role as a family member.I highly recomend this story to anyone.

My 12-13 yr old daughter loved this book, even read it twice - unheard of! She's one we've had to work with on her reading, she prefers comics.

The book does deal with tough issues. Poverty, conflict-war (and a father absent, off to fight it), and the older daughter (Maura) having big responsibilities to her siblings, including a teenage, retarded sister. But it is also heartening and wonderful. As well as having a character that tween girls can sympathize with.