Touching Snow

English

ISBN: 1416917950

EAN: 9781416917953

Category: Juvenile Fiction / Family / General/Juvenile Fiction / Social Issues / Physical & Emotional Abuse/Juvenile Fiction / General/Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States / General/

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens Publishing

Release Date: 12/20/2011

Age Range: 12-17

Synopsis: The best way to avoid being picked on by high school bullies is to kill someone.Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal -- again. Shed like this to change, but with her and her sisters dodging their stepfathers fists every day after school, she doesnt have time to do much self-reflecting. Finally her stepfather is taken away on child abuse charges, and Karina thinks things might turn into something resembling normal. The problem is, hes not gone for good. And as Karina becomes closer with a girl at the community center where her stepfather is not showing up for his parenting classes, she starts to realize a couple things. First, for all the problems her family had tried to escape by immigrating from Haiti, they brought most of them along to upstate New York. And second, if anything is going to change for this family, it is going to be up to Karina and her sisters to make it happen.M. Sindy Felins debut novel is the story of a young girls coming-of-age amid the violent waters that run just beneath the surface of suburbia -- a story that has the courage to ask: How far will you go to protect the ones you love?

Awards: Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) – null  Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) – null  Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards) – null 

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Touching Snow

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.25 inches

Weight: 11.68 oz

Pages: 240