Every Time a Rainbow Dies
by Rita Williams-Garcia
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After seeing a girl raped and becoming obsessed with her, sixteen-year-old Thulani finds motivation to move beyond his interest in his pigeons and his grief over his mother's death.Tags
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We read this book in eighth grade. A very good book for preteens.
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Rita Williams-Garcia graduated from Hofstra University. She has written several books including Blue Tights, Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Fast Talk on a Slow Track, One Crazy Summer, and No Laughter Here. Like Sisters on the Homefront was named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book. She won the PEN/Norma Klein Award. She currently teaches at the Vermont show more College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children and Young Adults Program. She won the Coretta Scott King awards in 2016 with her title Gone Crazy in Alabama in the author category. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Every Time a Rainbow Dies
- Original title
- Every Time a Rainbow Dies
- Original publication date
- 2001; 2002 (Nederlandse vertaling) (Nederlandse vertaling)
- Original language*
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- Fiction and Literature, Teen, Children's Books, Young Adult
- DDC/MDS
- 813.6 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 2000-
- LCC
- PZ7 .W6713 .E — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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