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Touching Snow
Contributor(s): Felin, M. Sindy (Author)

ISBN: 1416917950 ISBN-13: 9781416917953
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2007
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Annotation: In her debut novel, Felin tells the story of a young girl coming of age amid the violent waters that run just beneath the surface of suburbia--a story that has the courage to ask how far one will go to protect a loved one.

Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Physical & Emotional Abuse (see Also Social Themes - Sexual
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - Siblings

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 2006014794

Age Level: 13-17

Grade Level: 8-12

Lexile Measure: 920(Not Available)

Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.85" W x 8.46" L (0.75 lbs) 240 pages

Themes:
- Geographic Orientation - New York
- Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies
- Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Northeast U.S.

Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product

Awards: Americas Award for Children & Young Adult Literature, Commended, Children/Young Adult, 2008
Tayshas Reading, Commended, Young Adult, 2009
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens, Recommended, Fourteen and Up, 2008
Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Nominee, Young Adult, 2008
National Book Awards, Finalist, Young People's Lit., 2007

Review Citations: Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2007 pg. 46 - Recommended - Hard To Beat
Kirkus Review - Children 05/15/2007 pg. 498
Booklist 05/15/2007 pg. 43
Kliatt 05/01/2007 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 06/04/2007 pg. 52
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2007 pg. 394
School Library Journal 09/01/2007 pg. 195
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2007 pg. 19 - Recommended
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2007 pg. 367 - Superior,Well Above Average
Multicultural Review 12/01/2007 pg. 89
ALA Best Books Young Adults 01/01/2008 pg. 1

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 116394
Reading Level: 5.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 9.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:
The best way to avoid being picked on by high school bullies is to kill someone.

Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal -- again. She'd like this to change, but with her and her sisters dodging their stepfather's fists every day after school, she doesn't have time to do much self-reflecting. Finally her stepfather is taken away on child abuse charges, and Karina thinks things might turn into something resembling normal. The problem is, he's not gone for good. And as Karina becomes closer with a girl at the community center where her stepfather is not showing up for his parenting classes, she starts to realize a couple things. First, for all the problems her family had tried to escape by immigrating from Haiti, they brought most of them along to upstate New York. And second, if anything is going to change for this family, it is going to be up to Karina and her sisters to make it happen.

M. Sindy Felin's debut novel is the story of a young girl's coming-of-age amid the violent waters that run just beneath the surface of suburbia -- a story that has the courage to ask: How far will you go to protect the ones you love?

Contributor Bio(s): Felin, M. Sindy: - M. Sindy Felin was born in Brooklyn, New York to Hatian immigrants and grew up in suburban Rockland County. She was the first person in her extended family to have been born in the United States, and the first girl to attend college--she graduated from Wesleyan University in 1994. Touching Snow is her first novel. Sindy lives just outside Washington, D.C

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