Title: Skyscraping
Description: Mira is just beginning her senior year of high school when she discovers her father with his male lover. Her world and everything she thought she knew about her family is shattered instantly. Unable to comprehend the lies, betrayal, and secrets that unbeknownst to Mira have come to define and keep intact her family s existence, Mira distances herself from her sister and closest friends as a means of coping. But her father s sexual orientation isn t all he s kept hidden. A shocking health scare brings to light his battle with HIV. As Mira struggles to make sense of the many fractures in her family s fabric and redefine her wavering sense of self, shemust find a way to reconnect with her dad while there is still time.
Subjects: Secrets, Juvenile fiction, High schools, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Gay fathers, Secrecy, Schools, History, Children's fiction, Stories in rhyme, Schools, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, New york (n.y.), history, fiction, Novels in verse, Family secrets
Places: New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 20th century