The Stars at Oktober Bend (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780763692728)

Beautiful, lyrical prose, told in two voices, lifts up a poignant story of two traumatized teens who find each other in a small riverside town.

i am the girl manny loves. the girl who writes our story in the book of flying. i am alice.

Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words, but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows that words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chips shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken, too: he once was a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent things. But in a new land with people who care for him, Manny explores the small town on foot. And in his pocket, he carries a poem he scooped up, a poem whose words he knows by heart. The relationship between Alice and Manny will be the beginning of love and healing. And for these two young souls, perhaps, that will be good enough.

Author: Glenda Millard
ISBN-10: 0763692727
ISBN-13: 9780763692728
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2018
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 501484 / Stars at Oktober Bend


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/26/2018
School Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 136
Booklist 04/01/2018 pg. 73
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2018 - Recommended - Readable