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This Is the Story of You
Beth Kephart
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Description for This Is the Story of You
Hardcover. THIS IS THE STORY OF YOU is about the beauty of nature and the power of family, about finding hope in the wake of tragedy, and recovery in the face of overwhelming loss. Num Pages: 264 pages, jacketed. BIC Classification: YFB. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 216 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on-to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future. Gripping and poetic, This Is the Story of ... Read more
On Haven, a six-mile long, half-mile-wide stretch of barrier island, Mira Banul and her Year-Rounder friends have proudly risen to every challenge. But then a superstorm defies all predictions and devastates the island, upending all logic and stranding Mira's mother and brother on the mainland. Nothing will ever be the same. A stranger appears in the wreck of Mira's home. A friend obsessed with vanishing disappears. As the mysteries deepen, Mira must find the strength to carry on-to somehow hold her memories in place while learning to trust a radically reinvented future. Gripping and poetic, This Is the Story of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
San Francisco, United States
ISBN
9781452142845
SKU
V9781452142845
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Beth Kephart
Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of books for both adults and young readers, including Going Over and This Is the Story of You. She lives in Devon, Pennsylvania, and teaches creative nonfiction at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reviews for This Is the Story of You
A beautiful story. -Tim Wynne-Jones, winner of the Boston-Globe Horn Book Award for Blink & Caution A powerful, gorgeous novel -Dana Reinhardt, award-winning author of The Things a Brother Knows and We Are the Goldens Relatable characters and a poetic style. -Publishers Weekly We fall in love with Kephart more and more every year
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