The stars at oktober bend
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 corne...
| Main Author: | Millard, Glenda (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Somerville, Massachusetts :
Candlewick Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: |
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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| Physical Description: |
266 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
0763692727 9780763692728 |
| Author Notes: |
In 2009 Millard released her young-adult fiction novel A Small Free Kiss in the Dark and the children's novel Perry Angel's Suitcase. A Small Free Kiss in the Dark was a short-list nominee for the 2009 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel but lost to Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan and Perry Angel's Suitcase won the 2009 Children's Book of the Year Award for younger readers. Millard was also named an ambassador for the Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge In 2015 her title Once A Shepherd was chosen as one of four titles for the United States Board of Books for Young People. Her title The Duck and Darklings made the Wilderness Society 2015 children's book award shortlist in the Picture Fiction category. In 2016, it won the WA Premier's Book Awards in the Children's category. (Bowker Author Biography) |