The stars at Oktober Bend
(Book)
Author
Published
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
Format
Book
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Southside - Young Adult
Fiction Millard, G
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Fiction Millard, G
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Published
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 4.9, 8 Points
Level 4.9, 8 Points
Lexile code
HL
Lexile measure
700
Notes
Description
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.
Target Audience
HL700L,Lexile
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,4.9,8,501484.
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Juvenile fiction.
High schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Mute persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Novels.
Poetry -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
Wounds and injuries -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
High schools -- Juvenile fiction.
Mute persons -- Juvenile fiction.
Novels.
Poetry -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction.
Teenage refugees -- Juvenile fiction.
Wounds and injuries -- Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.