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Nikki loftin born april 12, 1972 is an american author of middle grade fiction. A dying girl gives a boy the strength to live in this lyrical novel that will break your heart and lift your spirit peter stones parents and siblings are extroverts, musicians, and yellersand the louder they get, the less peter talks, or even moves, until he practically fits his last name. But when a sinister old woman tricks her into accepting a box of eleven shiny indian head pennies from 1897, griffin soon learns these are no ordinary. Nikki loftin author of the sinister sweetness of splendid.
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