| Edition |
First edition |
| Phys Descr |
325 pages ; 22 cm |
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Novel |
| Summary |
Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives |
| Note |
Stonewall Book Award, Mike Morgan and Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award, 2016 |
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Reading Counts High School 5.2 20 |
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Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.4 12.0 174471 |
| Contents |
Seventeen-year-old Carson Smith is bored with Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years -- but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who's run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives |
| Subject |
Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction
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Children of alcoholics -- Juvenile fiction
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African American teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
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Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
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Billings (Mont.) -- Juvenile fiction
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Billings (Mont.) -- Fiction |
| OCLC # |
890912329 |
| ISBN # |
9780545648936 |
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0545648939 |
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9780545648943 |
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0545648947 |
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9780545754927 |
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0545754925 |
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9781338032451 |
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1338032453 |
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