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Article: David Macinnis Gill: Soul Enchilada.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
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- The Horn Book Magazine
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- March 1, 2009
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David Macinnis Gill Soul Enchilada
356 pp. Greenwillow 4/09 ISBN 978-0-06-167301-6 $16.99 (g)
Library edition ISBN 978-0-06-167302-3 $17.89
(High School)
Eunice Smoot, a.k.a. Bug, has had a hard life. A mixed-race teenager, she has been orphaned three times, first by the death of her Latina mother, then by the deaths of her African American great-aunt and paternal grandfather. But now it's gone from bad to worse. Since her grandfather sold his soul to the devil, literally, for a vintage Cadillac, and somehow managed to renege on the deal from the afterlife, the demonic repossession agent is now after the car--and Bug's soul. Bug loses ...