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''The Listmaker'' is a novel by Australian author Creator/RobinKlein.
''The Listmaker'' is about twelve-year-old Sarah Radcliffe, an unpopular boarding school student who spends all her holidays with her eccentric aunts while her father travels around the world. But soon, Sarah's father will be coming home to marry the glamorous Piriel Starr, and Sarah thinks she will soon have loads of friends who'll be dying to visit her in her fabulous new apartment--she just has to survive one more summer living with the aunts.
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!! Provides examples of:
* CallingTheOldManOut: Sarah overhears her Aunty Nat accusing her father of being neglecting and undeserving.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sarah thinks that Aunty Dosh and Aunty Nat fit here.
* DaddyDidntShow: Sarah’s father rarely visits, despite promises, and often cuts short the times he does show up.
* InnocentInaccurate: Sarah, determined to idolise Piriel, doesn’t pick up on Piriel’s lack of interest in her.
* JerkAss: Sarah's dad. Piriel.
* NeatFreak: Sarah.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Sarah’s father is engaged to Piriel. Sarah adores Piriel and believes that when Piriel and her father are married, the three of them will be a family together.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sarah’s mother died when she was a baby, and her father neglects her, leaving her in the care of her great-aunts and rarely visits.
* ParentalSubstitute: Aunty Nat and Dorothy are parental substitutes for Sarah.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Sarah.
* WickedStepmother: Piriel, while not exactly a wicked step-mother, is much closer to this than Sarah realises.
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''The Listmaker'' is about twelve-year-old Sarah Radcliffe, an unpopular boarding school student who spends all her holidays with her eccentric aunts while her father travels around the world. But soon, Sarah's father will be coming home to marry the glamorous Piriel Starr, and Sarah thinks she will soon have loads of friends who'll be dying to visit her in her fabulous new apartment--she just has to survive one more summer living with the aunts.
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!! Provides examples of:
* CallingTheOldManOut: Sarah overhears her Aunty Nat accusing her father of being neglecting and undeserving.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Sarah thinks that Aunty Dosh and Aunty Nat fit here.
* DaddyDidntShow: Sarah’s father rarely visits, despite promises, and often cuts short the times he does show up.
* InnocentInaccurate: Sarah, determined to idolise Piriel, doesn’t pick up on Piriel’s lack of interest in her.
* JerkAss: Sarah's dad. Piriel.
* NeatFreak: Sarah.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Sarah’s father is engaged to Piriel. Sarah adores Piriel and believes that when Piriel and her father are married, the three of them will be a family together.
* ParentalAbandonment: Sarah’s mother died when she was a baby, and her father neglects her, leaving her in the care of her great-aunts and rarely visits.
* ParentalSubstitute: Aunty Nat and Dorothy are parental substitutes for Sarah.
* TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Sarah.
* WickedStepmother: Piriel, while not exactly a wicked step-mother, is much closer to this than Sarah realises.
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