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Burn baby burn / Meg Medina.
Van Pelt Library PS3613.E338 B87 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Medina, Meg, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cuban Americans--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Cuban Americans--Fiction.
- Family problems--Fiction.
- Disco dancing--Fiction.
- Cuban Americans.
- Queens (New York, N.Y.)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Coming of age--Fiction.
- Electric power failures.
- Serial murders.
- Young adult fiction.
- New York (State)--New York.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION--Historical--United States--20th Century.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION--People Places--United States--Hispanic & Latino.
- Family life--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile fiction.
- Serial murders--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile fiction.
- Serial murders--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Electric power failures--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile fiction.
- Electric power failures--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
- Local Subjects:
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION--Historical--United States--20th Century.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION--People Places--United States--Hispanic & Latino.
- Coming of age--Fiction.
- Family life--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile fiction.
- Serial murders--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile fiction.
- Serial murders--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- Electric power failures--New York (State)--New York--Juvenile fiction.
- Electric power failures--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.
- New York (N.Y.)--Juvenile fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Young adult fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Historical fiction. -- Juvenile fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- It is the summer of 1977, and New York is suffering under a heat wave, a massive blackout, and a killer named the Son of Sam, while seventeen-year-old Cuban American Nora Lopez wants to escape her increasingly violent younger brother and worries about college applications and paying rent to spend her days working at the deli with the cute new Colombian boy and her nights at the disco dancing with her best friend Kathleen.
- Notes:
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
- YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults, 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780763674670
- 0763674672
- OCLC:
- 937704595
- Publisher Number:
- 99975871609
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