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The Stars at Oktober Bend
The Stars at Oktober Bend | Glenda Millard
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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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The Stars at Oktober Bend | Glenda Millard
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"The richness of language is magical and profound, and would make a powerful model for adolescents as they learn to communicate through their own writings and with their own unique voices." Read full review: https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/review/volume-xi-issue-2/11/ #YALit

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The Stars at Oktober Bend | Glenda Millard
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It's time for #CoverLove #YAEdition.

First up. Locke this sparkly Stacy cover but I hate how they spelled Oktober. Out now.

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The Stars at Oktober Bend | Glenda Millard
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It took a few chapters to get used to the narrative style but once I adapted to the lyrical, deliberately disjointed writing I was hooked. The book follows 15-year-old Alice in the aftermath of a traumatic injury. As she attempts to make sense of her compromised state, she meets Manny, who is suffering from his experiences as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. Their intertwined story beautifully explores the depth of emotion after tragedy.

Suet624 Wow. I‘ve just stacked three of your reads. 😁 7y
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Recallbook
The Stars at Oktober Bend | Glenda Millard
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Glenda writes with such insight into the things that matter in life. Lovely read that reflects gently on pain, grief & life complicated by trauma, through young teen eyes. Social class, family, young love are themes, as well as dealing with the past & how it can affect your future if you let it or choose instead to make you stronger and still able to love. Enjoyed this book very much :))