The Places We Sleep

ISBN-10: 0823451305
ISBN-13: 9780823451302
Author: Dubois, Caroline
Interest Level: 3-7
Publisher: Holiday House

Publication Date: July 2022

Copyright: 2020

Page Count: 272

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Interest Level

Grades 3-7

Reading Level

Accelerated Reader Level: 5.5
Accelerated Reader Points: 4.0

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BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 21st Century

JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women

Description
A family divided, a country going to war, and a girl desperate to feel at home converge in this stunning novel in verse. Selected for Summer/Fall 2020 Indies Introduce List It's early September 2001, and twelve-year-old Abbey is the new kid at school. Again. I worry about people speaking to me / and worry just the same / when they don't. Tennessee is her family's latest stop in a series of moves due to her dad's work in the Army, but this one might be different. Her school is far from Base, and for the first time, Abbey has found a real friend: loyal, courageous, athletic Camille. And then it's September 11. The country is under attack, and Abbey's "home" looks like it might fall apart. America has changed overnight. How are we supposed / to keep this up / with the world / crumbling / around us? Abbey's body changes, too, while her classmates argue and her family falters. Like everyone around her, she tries to make sense of her own experience as a part of the country's collective pain. With her mother grieving and her father preppi
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