Showing posts with label coming of age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coming of age. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Sure Signs of Crazy by Karen Harrington - 2014

Sure Signs of Crazy by Karen Harrington
Little, Brown and Company
280p.


Twelve-year-old Sarah writes letters to her hero, To Kill a Mockingbird's Atticus Finch, for help understanding her mentally ill mother, her first real crush, and life in her small Texas town, all in the course of one momentous summer.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins

Bamboo People by Mitali Perkins
Charlesbridge
2010
272 pgs.

Summary
Two Burmese boys, one a Karenni refugee and the other the son of an imprisoned Burmese doctor, meet in the jungle and in order to survive they must learn to trust each other.