The Orange Houses / Paul Griffin.
By: Griffin, Paul.
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BookPublisher: New York : Dial Books, c2009Description: 147 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780803733466 (trade); 9780329784454 (Follett bdg.); 0803733461; 0329784455.Subject(s): Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction | Hearing impaired -- Juvenile fiction | People with disabilities -- Juvenile fiction | Veterans -- Juvenile fiction | Mental illness -- Juvenile fiction | Illegal aliens -- Juvenile fiction | Africans -- United States -- Juvenile fiction | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Hearing impaired -- Fiction | People with disabilities -- Fiction | Veterans -- Fiction | Mental illness -- Fiction | Illegal aliens -- Fiction | Africans -- United States -- Fiction | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Hearing impaired -- Fiction | Handicapped -- Fiction | Veterans -- Fiction | Mental illness -- Fiction | Illegal aliens -- Fiction | Africans -- United States -- Fiction | Bronx (New York, N.Y.) -- FictionDDC classification: [Fic] Summary: Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
Booklist starred, May 2009
Pub Weekly, June 2009
Horn Book, October 2009
Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), October 2009
Kirkus Review, May 2009
Multicultural Review, January 2010
Tamika, a fifteen-year-old hearing-impaired girl, Jimmi, an eighteen-year-old veteran who stopped taking his antipsychotic medication, and sixteen-year-old Fatima, an illegal immigrant from Africa, meet and connect in their Bronx, New York, neighborhood, with devastating results.
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