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Title The Orange Houses / Paul Griffin.

Imprint

New York : Dial Books, 2009.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
PCMS Realistic	F GRIFFIN	---	DUE 03-20-24

Description	147 p. ; 21 cm.
Indexed In:	ALA Booklist
	ALA Best Book For Young Adults
	Bulletin(Center for Children's Books)
	Kirkus Reviews
Summary	Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Audience	4.1 Perma-Bound Books.
	9-12 Perma-Bound Books.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR 4.1 4.0 130508.
Subject	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
	Hearing impaired -- Fiction.
	People with disabilities -- Fiction.
	Veterans -- Fiction.
	Mental illness -- Fiction.
	Illegal aliens -- Fiction.
	Africans -- United States -- Fiction.
	Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
	Hearing impaired -- Fiction.
	Handicapped -- Fiction.
	Veterans -- Fiction.
	Mental illness -- Fiction.
	Illegal aliens -- Fiction.
	Africans -- United States -- Fiction.
	Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
	Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN	0803733461 : $18.01