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Author:

Millard, Glenda, author.

Title:

The stars at oktober bend / Glenda Millard.

Edition:

First U.S. edition

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

266 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Mute persons--Fiction.
Child soldiers--Sierra Leone--Fiction.
Teenage refugees--Fiction.
Wounds and injuries--Fiction.
High schools--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Poetry--Fiction.

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. Their relationship brings the beginning of love and healing, which for Manny and Alice, perhaps, will be enough." -- Jacket.

ISBN:

9780763692728
0763692727

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1001310133

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

VOPB384 -- Conrad Public Library (Conrad)

OJPC027 -- Corning Public Library (Corning)

3HSX245 -- Denison High School (Denison)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)