A01=Cordelia Jensen
A01=Laurie Morrison
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Author_Cordelia Jensen
Author_Laurie Morrison
autism
autism spectrum
automatic-update
battling injustice
best friends
Category1=Kids
Category=YFB
Category=YX
childrens fiction
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
engaging
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eq_childrens
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eq_nobargain
eq_personal-social-topics
eq_teenage-young-adult
family
fiction
foster child
foster home
friendship
good intentions
half poetry
half prose
juvenile
juvenile fiction
Language_English
life lessons
middle grade fiction
neighbors
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€5 to €10
prose and poetry
PS=Active
raise money for autistic children
relationships
robin hood theme
softlaunch
therapeutic boarding school
Product details
- ISBN 9781419733772
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Abrams
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In this beautifully constructed middle-grade novel, told half in prose and half in verse, Lauren prides herself on being a good sister, and Sierra is used to taking care of her mom. When Lauren’s parents send her brother to a therapeutic boarding school for teens on the autism spectrum and Sierra moves to a foster home in Lauren’s wealthy neighborhood, both girls are lost until they find a deep bond with each other. But when Lauren recruits Sierra to help with a Robin Hood scheme to raise money for autistic kids who don’t have her family’s resources, Sierra has a lot to lose if the plan goes wrong.
Lauren must learn that having good intentions isn’t all that matters when you battle injustice, and Sierra needs to realize that sometimes the person you need to take care of is yourself.
Cordelia Jensen is the author of the YA novel-in-verse Skyscraping, which earned a starred review from Booklist ("Exquisite free-verse poems...illuminating and deeply felt"). This is Laurie Morrison's first novel. Both authors live in Philadelphia and received MFAs in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
