Pub Date: August 6, 2019
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2017047526
Lexile Code: 0640
Features: Price on Product
Target Age Group: 13 to 17
Physical Info: 1.00" H x 8.40" L x 5.40" W ( 0.60 lbs) 352 pages
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Description: Sixteen-year-old Indy struggles to conceal that she's pregnant by rape and then, turned out by relatives, must find a way to survive on her own in Nassau.
Brief description: Janice Lynn Mather is a Bahamian Canadian author. Her first novel, Learning to Breathe, was a Governor General's Award finalist, a Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize finalist, shortlisted for the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection, an Amelia Bloomer Book List pick, and a Junior Library Guild Selection. Her second novel, Facing the Sun, was an Amy Mathers Teen Book Award winner. Where Was Goodbye? is her third novel for teens. Janice Lynn lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Review Quotes: "A love letter to girls--bittersweet and full of hope."--Ibi Zoboi, author of National Book Award Finalist AMERICAN STREET