This Is How It Always Is -- Laurie Frankel, Paperback Children's Books/Ages 9-12 People & Places half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge

half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West

and keep it safe and orderly within the walls of the spookiest house you're ever likely to find

an elderly occupant of her apartment building and former swim team captain

revised by the author a decade after its initial publication in 1979

The one who shows up for her and her nephew when they need him most

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