Keeper of the Night
by Kimberly Willis Holt
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Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl living on the island of Guam, and her family try to cope with the death of Isabel's mother who committed suicide.Tags
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Narrated by Vivian B. McLaughlin. *Some SPOILERS* Thirteen-year-old Isabel and her family suffer the aftereffects of her mother's suicide. Tata sleeps on the floor where the mother was found. Olivia wets the bed and has nightmares. Frank is mutilating himself and his bedroom wall with a knife. And Isabel feels the responsibility of looking out for all of them and minding the family store. But she too has trouble coming to terms with her mother's death and eventually she and Olivia are meeting with Ed, a psychiatrist, after Frank attempts suicide and is hospitalized. At story's end Isabel gets involved with diving, Frank is progressing and playing the ukelele again, and the family is moving towards healing.
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Kimberly Willis Holt was born in Pensacola, Florida September 9, 1960, but spent most of her childhood in Forest Hill, Louisiana. Kimberly is a children's writer, most famous for writing When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, which won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 1999. She has also won, or been shortlisted, for a number of show more prestigious awards: Mister and Me, My Louisiana Sky, Dancing in Cadillac Light, Keeper of the Night, Waiting for Gregory, Part of Me, Skinny Brown Dog, Piper Reed Navy Brat, Piper Reed the Great Gypsy, and Piper Reed Gets a Job. Kimberly lives in Amarillo, Texas. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Teresita is boiling in her own and doesn't hear me.
How can time do that? One moment flies by so quickly. Another moment stands still.
Tata sings. I sing. Our voices become one. I remember when I was a little girl, sitting in the kitchen, watching my mother from my book, wondering, Why the fuss? Why go through this much trouble to make such a dish? Now I kn... (show all)ow why.
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- Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Teen, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 573 — Natural sciences & mathematics Biology Specific physiological systems in animals, regional histology and physiology in animals
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- PZ7 .H74023 .K — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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