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The lovely shoes

by Susan Shreve

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In 1950s Ohio, ninth-grader Franny feels isolated and self-conscious at high school because of her deformed leg and feet, but her irrepressibly high-spirited mother is determined to find shoes for Franny to wear at the school dances.

People with disabilitiesSelf-acceptanceHigh schoolsSchoolsMothers and daughtersFictionClothing and dress, fictionChildren's fiction