Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
Description |
266 p. ; 21 cm. |
Indexed In: |
School Library Journal starred, April 2018 |
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Pub Weekly, March 2018 |
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Booklist, April 2018 |
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Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2018 |
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Kirkus Review, May 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."--OCLC. |
Audience |
Young Adult Follett School Solutions. |
Subject |
Mute persons -- Fiction.
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Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Fiction.
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Teenage refugees -- Fiction.
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Wounds and injuries -- Fiction.
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High schools -- Fiction.
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Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Teenage boys -- Fiction.
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Poetry -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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ISBN |
9780763692728 |
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