Sparrow - Couverture rigide

Moon, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1338032585 ISBN 13 : 9781338032581

Editeur : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2017

Synopsis

Sparrow has always had a difficult time making friends. She would always rather stay home on the weekends with her mother, an affluent IT executive at a Manhattan bank, reading, or watching the birds, than play with other kids. And that's made school a lonely experience for her. It's made LIFE a lonely experience.

But when the one teacher who really understood her -- Mrs. Wexler, the school librarian, a woman who let her eat her lunch in the library office rather than hide in a bathroom stall, a woman who shared her passion for novels and knew just the ones she'd love -- is killed in a freak car accident, Sparrow's world unravels and she's found on the roof of her school in an apparent suicide attempt.

With the help of an insightful therapist, Sparrow finally reveals the truth of her inner life. And it's here that she discovers an outlet in rock & roll music...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah Moon is a teacher and writer. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with her wife, Jasmine, and their dog, Otis. She is the coeditor of The Letter Q, a young adult anthology. Sparrow is her first young adult novel.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The story of a sensitive, gifted African American girl who tells us with mordant humor what it feels like to spend every day wishing so hard that you could fly away from it all

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

They find her on the edge of the roof of her school. No one believes that she wasn't about to jump.

But then again, no one knows Sparrow very well.

She keeps good grades. She keeps to herself. Though she wishes she could find a friend, she h

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From Sparrow:

I walk home from school, looking everywhere for a bird –- any kind –- but it's like they've all left town. I feel a kind of lonely that's entirely different from the eat-lunch-in-the-bathroom kind. It's worse. Somewhere inside is the knowledge that they're never coming back. That I traded them in for just the idea of talking. That they know that I will eventually betray them, and so they've forgotten me. I try not to listen to this knowledge...

I curl into a ball on my bed. I can't bear to look out the window. I don't want to see the empty sky. Don't want to wait for them to come, knowing that they never will. I stay curled in a ball until the sun sets. I fall asleep, I guess, but fall isn't really the word. I plummet.

In my dream, for a minute, things are perfect. My body goes light and my arms go out, my heart swoops up and soars down; it's like it always is... I stretch my wings...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arthur A. Levine Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1338032585
• ISBN 13: 9781338032581
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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