The stars at Oktober Bend
By: Glenda Millard
Publisher: Old Barn Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781910646151; 9781910646175
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Teenagers; Interpersonal relations
Description: Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has a brain injury, the result of an assault. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. When Manny first sees Alice, she is sitting on the rusty roof of her river house, looking like a carving on an old-fashioned ship, sailing through the stars. He has a poem in his pocket and he knows the words by heart. And he is sure that girl has written them. When Manny and Alice meet they find the beginnings of love and healing.
Notes: First published in Australia and New Zealand by: Allen & Unwin, 2016.

Adolescence.