Bad Houses

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Malletts Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Graphic Novel / Ryan, Sara	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

"Teenagers Anne and Lewis cross paths and together refuse to succumb to the fate of the older generation as they discover the secrets of their hometown and their own families"-- Provided by publisher.

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bad houses submitted by a2sue on June 30, 2014, 11:31am bad houses is a fun teen read

The perfect combination of irony and doodle submitted by torikaebaya on February 4, 2017, 1:16pm As a collaborative work, Bad Houses is the perfect combination of irony and doodle. The work of such talents as Sara Ryan of YA lit fame and Carla Speed McNeil of Comic Book Tattoo, Bad Houses is the story of town in need of a populace. Lewis helps his mom run estate sales, Fred buys up stuff from estate sales and sells them as antiques, Anne photographs the negative spaces. In a way the story depicts the vicious cycle of perpetual Buddhist desire and emptiness. Anne's mom Danica is a hoarder who won't let her throw out baby clothes; "Why would you get rid of that?" is her motto. Thanks to such a childhood, Anne's favorite hobby is burning photo albums and meaningless mementos. Her boyfriend Lewis procures said mementos from estate sales and auctions for her (when he's not tossing people over his shoulder in Aikido, because if you can, really, why wouldn't you?). The desire to hold on to the past that keeps Danica hoarding and Fred buying up a ghost town of trinkets is amusing, painful and in the end, familiar to the youngsters, looking for a blank canvas to paint themselves onto. An incredible read