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The stars at Oktober Bend / Glenda Millard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millard, Glenda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mute persons--Juvenile fiction.
- Mute persons.
- Child soldiers--Sierra Leone--Juvenile fiction.
- Child soldiers.
- Teenage refugees--Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage refugees.
- Wounds and injuries--Juvenile fiction.
- Wounds and injuries.
- High schools--Juvenile fiction.
- High schools.
- Teenage girls--Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage girls.
- Teenage boys--Juvenile fiction.
- Teenage boys.
- Poetry--Juvenile fiction.
- Poetry.
- Teenagers--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- People with mental disabilities--Fiction.
- Sexual abuse--Fiction.
- Refugees--Fiction.
- Sierra Leone.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Violence.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural.
- Local Subjects:
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Violence.
- YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Romance fiction.
- Young adult works.
- Young adult fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Other Title:
- Stars at October Bend
- Place of Publication:
- Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent things. But in a new land with new people who will care for him, he spends time exploring on foot. And in his pocket, he carries a poem he scooped up. And he knows the words by heart. When Manny and Alice meet, their relationship brings the beginning of love and healing.
- Notes:
- First published in 2016.
- ISBN:
- 9780763692728
- 0763692727
- OCLC:
- 1001310133
- Publisher Number:
- 99987197261
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