num_pages: 152
description: Typical teenager Kit lives a happy, normal life of friends,boys, and loving family. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are incredibly close despite their eight-year age difference, bonded by a shared love of baseball and math. But when Buddy is taken suddenly by cancer, Kit and herparents struggle to survive. Told in spare, lyrical verse, Rubber Houses is a powerful novel that perfectly captures the intense and excruciating pain of the loss of a loved one, and the slow but gradual hope of living again and finding one's way back home.
language: English
title: Rubber Houses
titlecomplete: Rubber Houses
genres: Family, Death, Poetry, Teen, Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 204
publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers