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The Stars at Oktober Bend

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Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has acquired brain injury, the result of an assault, and her words come out slow and slurred. But when she writes, heartwords fly from her pen. She writes poems to express the words she can't say and leaves them in unexpected places around the town. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. He appears to be adapting to his new life in this country, where there is comfort and safety, but at night he runs, barefoot, to escape the memory of his past. When he 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.


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Publisher: Allen & Unwin

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781743433331
  • File size: 1238 KB
  • Release date: February 2, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781743433331
  • File size: 1238 KB
  • Release date: February 2, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781743433331
  • File size: 4997 KB
  • Release date: February 2, 2016

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Levels

Lexile® Measure:700
Text Difficulty:3

Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has acquired brain injury, the result of an assault, and her words come out slow and slurred. But when she writes, heartwords fly from her pen. She writes poems to express the words she can't say and leaves them in unexpected places around the town. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. He appears to be adapting to his new life in this country, where there is comfort and safety, but at night he runs, barefoot, to escape the memory of his past. When he 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.


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Allen & Unwin

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781743433331
    File size: 1238 KB
    Release date: February 2, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781743433331
    File size: 1238 KB
    Release date: February 2, 2016

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781743433331
    File size: 4997 KB
    Release date: February 2, 2016

  • Creators
  • Formats
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    PDF ebook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 700
    Text Difficulty: 3
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