The stars at Oktober Bend, Glenda Millard
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The stars at Oktober Bend, Glenda Millard
Language
eng
Index
index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
The stars at Oktober Bend
Oclc number
1001310133
Responsibility statement
Glenda Millard
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
Target audience
adolescent
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Subject
- Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Juvenile fiction
- Mute persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Romance fiction
- Wounds and injuries -- Juvenile fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- People with mental disabilities -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Refugees -- Fiction
- Poetry -- Juvenile fiction
- Sexual abuse -- Fiction
- Teenage refugees -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
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- Subject15
- Child soldiers -- Sierra Leone -- Juvenile fiction
- Mute persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Romance fiction
- Wounds and injuries -- Juvenile fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Teenage girls -- Juvenile fiction
- High schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Young adult fiction
- People with mental disabilities -- Fiction
- Teenagers -- Fiction
- Refugees -- Fiction
- Poetry -- Juvenile fiction
- Sexual abuse -- Fiction
- Teenage refugees -- Juvenile fiction
- Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
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- Author1
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