****From the** ***New York Times*** **bestselling author of** ***Girl in Pieces*** **comes a novel about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness that Karen M. McManus, the** ***New York Times*** **bestselling author of** ***One of Us Is Lying*****,
How to make friends with the sea
โ Scribed by Tanya Guerrero
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Tanya Guerrero's How to Make Friends with the Sea is a middle grade debut novel set in the Philippines about a young boy's challenges with anxiety while his mother fosters an orphaned child with a facial anomaly.
Pablo is homesick.
He's only twelve years old, but he's lived in more countries than he can count. After his parents divorced, he and his mother have moved from place to place for years, never settling anywhere long enough to call it home. And along the way, Pablo has collected more and more fears: of dirt, of germs, and most of all, of the ocean.
Now they're living in the Philippines, and his mother, a zoologist who works at a local wildlife refuge, is too busy saving animals to notice that Pablo might need saving, too. Then his mother takes in Chiqui, an orphaned girl with a cleft lip--and Pablo finds that through being strong for Chiqui, his own fears don't seem so scary.
He might even find the courage to face his...
โฆ Subjects
Cultural
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