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Autumn Bird & the runaway (41909) |
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| | Physical
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249 pages
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2022
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Scholastic Canada
(2434)
| | Audience
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Intermediate, Junior High (IJ)
| | Collection
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Professional Library
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| | Synopsis
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Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship.
Cody's home life is a messy, too-often terrifying story of neglect
and abuse. Cody himself is a smart kid, a survivor with a wicked
sense of humour that helps him see past his circumstances and begin
to try to get himself out. Autumn is, quite literally, on the other
side of the tracks from him. Her home life is loving and secure, and
she is "in" with the popular girls at school, even if she has a
secret life as a glasses-wearing, self-professed comic book nerd at
home. And even if the pressure to fit in at school requires hours of
time spent making herself look "perfect". Returning home from a movie
one evening, Autumn comes across Cody, face down in the laneway
behind her house. All Cody knows is that he can't take another
beating from his father like the one he just narrowly escaped. He
can't go home, but he doesn't have anywhere else to go either. Autumn
won't turn her back on him, even if they never really were friends at
school. She agrees to let him hide out in her dad's art studio at
night. Over the next couple of days of Autumn sneaking Cody food and
bandages, his story comes out. And so does hers. Told in alternating
narratives, Autumn Bird & the Runaway is infused with themes of
identity, belonging and compassion; it's a story that reminds us that
we are all more than our circumstances, and we are all more connected
than we think.
| | Author
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Florence, Melanie
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Scrimger, Richard
| | Dimensions
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22 cm
| ISBN#
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9781443182867
| | Pub. Loc.
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Toronto
| | Stmt Resp
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Melanie Florence and Richard Scrimger.
| | TitleVartn
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Autumn Bird and the runaway
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Friendship—Fiction;
Interpersonal relations—Fiction;
Child abuse—Fiction;
Scrimger, Richard,—1957—-author(A);
Domestic violence—Fiction;
English/Language Arts
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FIC FLO
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