Just like that
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0544084772
ISBN 13
9780544084773
Category
fiction
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Publication Year
2021
Publisher
Pages
387
Tags
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Friendship, Young adult fiction, American, Death, Preparatory schools, Gangs, Novels, Bildungsromans, Social classes, Juvenile works, Friendship, Grief, Teenagers, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Death, Bereavement, Theft, Fiction, Maine, Loneliness, Juvenile fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, School stories
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from wealthy backgrounds. In a parallel story, Matt Coffin has wound up on the Maine coast near St. Elene's with a pillowcase full of money lifted from the leader of a criminal gang, fearing the gang's relentless, destructive pursuit. Both young people gradually dispel their loneliness, finding a way to be hopeful and also finding each other.
Biblio Notes
Notes:
"Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist"--Dust jacket.
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.9 15.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #510307.
"Newbery Honor Winner and National Book Award Finalist"--Dust jacket.
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 5.9 15.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz #510307.
Number of Copies
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