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Author Almond, David, 1951-

Title The tightrope walkers / David Almond.

Imprint Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2015.
©2014

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Fiction  HI F Almond    ---  Available
Edition 1st U.S. ed. 2015.
Description 326 p. ; 24 cm.
Indexed In: School Library Journal starred, January 2015
Booklist starred, February 2015
Horn Book Starred, March 2015
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, April 2015
Pub Weekly, January 2015
Kirkus Starred, December 2014
New York Times, May 2015
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), February 2015
Library Media Connection, October 2015
Summary A coming of age story set in the shipyards of northern England in which Dominic Hall is torn between eccentric artist Holly Stroud and the freedom he feels with her, his love of the tightrope, and being drawn to Vincent McAlinden, a complex bully who brings out his darker desires.
Audience HL 620 Lexile.
Young Adult Follett School Solutions.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.3 10.0 174008. 852
Subject Artists -- Fiction.
Bullies -- Fiction.
Northern England -- Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
ISBN 9780763673109

 
    
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