Description
Product ID: | 9780525556237 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | CA |
Title: | Break This House |
Authors: | Author: Candice Iloh |
Page Count: | 224 |
Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Drama and performing arts, Classic fiction (Children's / Teenage), Drama & performing (Children's / Teenage) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating From Printz honoree and National Book Award Finalist Candice Iloh, a prose novel about a teenager reckoning with her family’s—and her home town's—secrets. Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she’s moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah’s new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home. From Printz honoree and National Book Award Finalist Candice Iloh, a prose novel about a teenager reckoning with her family’s—and her home town''s—secrets. Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she’s moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she''s finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah’s new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents'' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally reckon with the truth about her mother and the growing collapse of a place she once called home. |
Imprint Name: | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
Publisher Name: | Dutton Books for Young Readers |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-05-24 |