The stars at Oktober Bend
By: Glenda Millard
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780763692728
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Child soldiers; Teenage boys; Teenage girls; Mute persons; Juvenile fiction; Poetry; Teenage refugees; Fiction; Interpersonal relations; Refugees; High schools; Wounds and injuries; People with mental disabilities; Sexual abuse; Teenagers
Description: Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent things. But in a new land with new people who will care for him, he spends time exploring on foot. And in his pocket, he carries a poem he scooped up. And he knows the words by heart. When Manny and Alice meet, their relationship brings the beginning of love and healing.