Trowbridge Road

It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June B...

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Main Author: Pixley, Marcella Fleischman (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug's connection to the world grows stronger, her mother's grows more distant - even dangerous - pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known.
Physical Description: 304 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 1536207500
9781536207507
Author Notes: Marcella Pixley is the author of three highly praised books for young adults that have received multiple starred reviews, including Ready to Fall . She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poetry and earned a master's from Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She teaches writing to middle-schoolers in Massachusetts, where she lives with her family.