The stars at Oktober Bend
Millard, Glenda2016
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A girl with a brain injury and a boy who is a former child soldier trying to escape his past meet and begin to find love and healing. Ages: 12+ Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has a brain injury, the result of an assault. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. When Manny first sees Alice, she is sitting on the rusty roof of her river house, looking like a carving on an old-fashioned ship, sailing through the stars. He has a poem in his pocket and he knows the words by heart. And he is sure that girl has written them. When Manny and Alice meet they find the beginnings of love and healing.
Main title:
The stars at Oktober Bend / Glenda Millard.
Author:
Millard, Glenda, author
Imprint:
Fittleworth, West Sussex : Old Barn Books, 2016.
Collation:
266 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Australia: Allen & Unwin.
ISBN:
9781910646151 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92JTYAJF
Local class:
YAFIC.JFTFJFYAFJFYAYA/MILJCYJF MIL 9MIL
Language:
English
Subject:
Index terms:
AR 4.9
BRN:
1576616