The Stars at Oktober Bend
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Call Number: Teen Fiction / Millard, Glenda
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: 266 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780763692728
0763692727
SUBJECTS
Mute persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
Wounds and injuries -- Juvenile fiction.
High schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction.
Poetry -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
People with mental disabilities -- Fiction.
Sexual abuse -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Romance fiction.