About Grace

Shoup, Barbara

ISBN 10: 1963943252 / ISBN 13: 9781963943252

Edité par Querencia Press, LLC, 2025

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Synopsis :

Grace Lowery is a typical Midwestern American teenager: pretty, smart, a good student from what is, to all appearances, an average, middle-class, single-parent home. There's just one difference: A series of bad decisions involving her wealthy, charming-but-irresponsible boyfriend has landed her in the state juvenile correction facility for girls.

Thus begins About Grace, a unique coming-of-age story in which a young woman deals with the consequences of her actions-and sees how those consequences are different for people living more and less privileged lives. Grace is forced to reckon with the harsh reality of the juvenile carceral system, the people she meets there, and her complicated feelings for the boy whose influence led her to this place. More important-and challenging-Grace begins to remember and unpack a history of childhood abuse at the hands of a trusted adult. It's a journey to self-awareness under harsh and unanticipated conditions, shocking revelations-and surprising friendships.

About Grace is a rare young adult novel that handles difficult and sometimes shocking subject matter with compassion, insight, and a touch of humor.

À propos de l'auteur: Barbara Shoup is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center, where she teaches and mentors writers of all ages and directs a summer learning program for at-risk youth. Her novels for young people have been honored by the PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, the American Library Association, the Bulletin for the Center for Children's Books, the Voice of Young America (VOYA), and the International Reading Association. She lives in Indianapolis.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : About Grace
Éditeur : Querencia Press, LLC
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good