Description
Winner of the 2014 Gold Moonbeam Award!
Like watching a movie frame by frame, we watch Lexi come unglued in this novel in verse. She's alienated from school and family. Her father is in the county jail. She cannot connect with her chain-smoking stepmom. Her brother, Blaine, is trapped in his own autistic world. And her infant sister's death has sent her into a spiral of grief and rebellion. Bright, witty, and irreverent, Lexi tries to navigate the rocky transition from adolescent to young woman.
Hard-hitting, contemporary young adult fiction in verse. Just like prose, a novel in verse tells a story. But verse is unique because readers access the text through short chapters, or poems. The varying lengths of the chapters are ideal for a striving reader, giving them breaks to collect their thoughts, to imagine the characters in their mind’s eye, and to set the scene like a frame in a movie. Books are 160 to 268 pages.
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- SKU:
- 9781622508839
- fbt-product:
- 40220
- fbt-product:
- 39420
- atc-product:
- 39232
- atc-product:
- 40589
- atc-product:
- 40534
- atc-product:
- 39339
- fbt-product:
- 38754
- cpu-product:
- 39420
- cpu-product:
- 40220
- cpu-product:
- 39530
- Series:
- Gravel Road® Verse
- Format:
- Paperback
- Grades:
- 9 to 12
- Reading Level:
- 1.6 to 3.5
- Lexile Level:
- HL620L
