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Original Essays | October 18, 2009

Victoria Hislop: IMG From Leprosy to Lorca — Strange Inspiration

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The House You Pass on the Way

by Jacqueline Woodson

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ISBN13: 9780399239694
ISBN10: 0399239693
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Staggerlee doesn't feel like she belongs in her own home town. She's a loner by nature, and her family is set apart by her parents' interracial marriage and by her celebrity grandparents' tragic deaths. Staggerlee claims her dog and harmonica are all the company she needs, but she yearns to have a friend who understands her. She once had a friend, Hazel, whom she felt connected to in a way she'd never felt before, until Hazel rejected her.

Then Daddy's sister Ida sends her adopted daughter, Tyler, to stay with the family for the summer. Staggerlee learns Tyler has been sent there to get over her "misguided" feelings towards girls. The two girls soon discover they can tell each other the thing they can't tell anyone else, but they struggle with what their feelings mean and how others would react if they knew.

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Jacqueline Woodson is also the celebrated author of Hush, a National Book Award Nominee, and the Coretta Scott King Award winner Miracle's Boys.
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ISBN:
9780399239694
Author:
Woodson, Jacqueline
Publisher:
Putnam Juvenile
Location:
New York
Subject:
Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General
Subject:
Children's 9-12 - Fiction - General
Subject:
Ethnic - African American
Subject:
Social Situations - Adolescence
Subject:
Lesbians
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Social Situations - Homosexuality
Subject:
Homosexuality
Subject:
Racially mixed people
Subject:
African Americans
Subject:
Interracial marriage
Subject:
Cousins
Subject:
People & Places - United States - African-American
Subject:
Social Issues - Adolescence
Subject:
Social Issues - Homosexuality
Subject:
Situations / Emotions & Feelings
Edition Description:
1st G.P. Putnam's Sons ed.
Series Volume:
2002-03
Publication Date:
20031027
Binding:
Hardback
Grade Level:
Young adult
Language:
English
Pages:
112
Dimensions:
8.52x5.82x.65 in. .63 lbs.
Age Level:
09-12
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