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My brother's shadow

Eleven-year-old Kaia, who has felt emotionally isolated since her brother's suicide, befriends a wild boy who mysteriously appears at her London school, finding a way to communicate with him despite his being mute.

Main Author: Avery, Tom (Children's story writer)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2014]
Edition: First American Edition.
Subjects:
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Grief > Juvenile fiction.
Single-parent families > Juvenile fiction.
Mutism > Juvenile fiction.
Suicide > Juvenile fiction.
London (England) > Juvenile fiction.
England > Juvenile fiction.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Kaia, who has felt emotionally isolated since her brother's suicide, befriends a wild boy who mysteriously appears at her London school, finding a way to communicate with him despite his being mute.
Item Description: "Originally published in paperback by Andersen Press Limited, London, in 2014."
Physical Description: 161 pages ; 22 cm
Audience: Ages 9-12.
ISBN: 9780385384872 (hc)
0385384874 (hc)
9780385384889 (glb)
0385384882 (glb)
Author Notes: Tom Avery is the author of the middle-grade novel Too Much Trouble, winner of the Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children's Book Award. He was born and raised in London in a very large, very loud family, descendants of the notorious pirate Henry Avery. Tom has worked as a teacher in inner-city schools in London and Birmingham, and he lives in North London with his wife and two sons.

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