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Loading... In Honor of Broken Thingsby Paul Acampora
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Oscar, Riley and Noah meet in their introduction to clay class. Oscar and his family are grieving his little sister's death from cancer. Noah's parents are divorced and he decides to not be homeschooled anymore although he is far more advanced than the kids in school. Riley's mother moved them back to West Beacon for a fresh start after being robbed at gunpoint in Philadelphia. As different as all three are, they end up bonding and becoming good friends who support each other. The dialogue is whipsmart and funny and there is an easy comfort to the portrayal of their friendship. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Oscar has just lost his beloved younger sister to cancer, Noah is a genius who has been homeschooled all his life but has decided he wants to go to middle school, Riley is an artist who has just moved back to West Beacon with his mother after she was held up at gun point--they are three unlikely friends with troubles in their lives, but when they meet in their middle school pottery class, they begin to learn how to piece their lives back together again. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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