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The Bank House

When Reeves Whitlock arrives in St. Clair, Nebraska where his father will have a job at the Bank House—a former residence now hosting a small bank in its living room—it is the eighth town he’s navigated in his thirteen years. Taking on a new school, his stern Great-Aunt Eugenia, a trio of bullies with one foot in the ninth grade and the other in the state penitentiary, and five inches of height needed to win the heart of the beautiful Nina Mondalez, Reeves grows to love St. Clair. But when his father’s troubles with the IRS and an Omaha bookie threaten to send his family running yet again, Reeves must conspire with an unlikely cast of allies to keep them in the only real home they’ve ever known.

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