Blackbird Fly

Name: Blackbird Fly
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
SKU: 9780062238627
Price: 10.19 EUR
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★★★★★

English

By (author): Erin Entrada Kelly

Illustrated by: Betsy Peterschmidt

Future rock star or friendless misfit? Thats no choice at all. In this acclaimed novel by Newbery Medalist Erin Entrada Kelly, twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different; with friends and backstabbers; and with following her dreams.

Publishers Weekly called Blackbird Fly a true triumph, and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, Apple soars like the eponymous blackbird of her favorite Beatles song.

Apple has always felt a little different from her classmates. She and her mother moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, and her mother still cooks Filipino foods and chastises Apple for becoming too American. When Apples friends turn on her and everything about her life starts to seem weird and embarrassing, Apple turns to music. If she can just save enough to buy a guitar and learn to play, maybe she can change herself. It might be the music that saves her . . . or it might be her two new friends, who show her how special she really is.

Erin Entrada Kelly deftly brings Apples conflicted emotions to the page in her debut novel about family, friendship, popularity, and going your own way. A must-read for those kids cringing at their own identities.Bulletin of the Center for Childrens Books.

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Product Details

Weight: 209g
Dimensions: 130 x 194mm
Publication Date: 09 Aug 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780062238627

About Erin Entrada Kelly

New York Timesbestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly was awarded the Newbery Medal for Hello Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space. She grew up in Lake Charles Louisiana and now lives in Delaware. She is a professor of childrens literature in the graduate fiction and publishing programs at Rosemont College where she earned her MFA and is on the faculty at Hamline University. Her short fiction has been nominated for the Philippines Free Press Literary Award for Short Fiction and the Pushcart Prize. Erin Entrada Kellys debut novel Blackbird Fly was a Kirkus Best Book a School Library Journal Best Book an ALSC Notable Book and an Asian/Pacific American Literature Honor Book. She is also the author of The Land of Forgotten Girls winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature; You Go First a Spring 2018 Indie Next Pick; Lalani of the Distant Sea an Indie Next Pick; and Maybe Maybe Marisol Rainey which she also illustrated. The authors mother was the first in her family to immigrate to the United States from the Philippines and she now lives in Cebu.