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Bezig met laden... The Orange Housesdoor Paul Griffin
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is an incredible story about a hearing impares girl, her friends, an immigrant, and a young war veteran. Mika is just making it through life with clunky awful hearing aids that are all the government will buy for her. Turning them on allows her to her sound, but the static isn't really worth it. It is her relationship with her friends that make this story such a charmer. It is amazing. Kearsten says: This is a pretty rough story, revolving around three lost teens: Mika, a 15-year-old hearing-impaired girl, 18-yr-old Jimmi, a mentally disabled veteran, and Fatima, a 16-yr-old African illegal. Their paths cross and recross in Bronx, and they each struggle with what it means for him/her to be free. These teens are all living rough, fighting bullies, fear and mental illness, but are brought together in the way that each longs for something better, through art, freedom, kindness. The chapters alternate between the three teens' points of view, and tension mounts as each chapter counts down to a violence predicted at the beginning of the book AND as the reader becomes more and more invested in the characters - why will someone be hanged? Will Mika stop stutting the world out by turning off her hearing aids when life becomes overwhelming? Will Fatima survive? Haunting and disturbing yet still hopeful, this would make an excellent book discussion choice. Recommended. This is a pretty rough story, revolving around three lost teens: Mika, a 15-year-old hearing-impaired girl, 18-yr-old Jimmi, a mentally disabled veteran, and Fatima, a 16-yr-old African illegal. Their paths cross and recross in Bronx, and they each struggle with what it means for him/her to be free. These teens are all living rough, fighting bullies, fear and mental illness, but are brought together in the way that each longs for something better, through art, freedom, kindness. The chapters alternate between the three teens' points of view, and tension mounts as each chapter counts down to a violence predicted at the beginning of the book AND as the reader becomes more and more invested in the characters - why will someone be hanged? Will Mika stop shutting the world out by turning off her hearing aids when life becomes overwhelming? Will Fatima survive? Haunting and disturbing yet still hopeful, this would make an excellent book discussion choice. Recommended. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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