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Whitehouse, David
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Fiction
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Scribner
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English
β 377 KB
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Mobile Library
β Scribed by Whitehouse, David
- Book ID
- 110458918
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 377 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781476749433
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by The New York Times as βa writer to watch,β a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels.
βAn archivist of his mother,β Bobby Nusku spends his nights meticulously cataloging her hair, clothing, and other traces of the life she left behind. By day, Bobby and his best friend Sunny hatch a plan to transform Sunny, limb-by-limb, into a cyborg who could keep Bobby safe from schoolyard torment and from Bobbyβs abusive father and his bleach-blonde girlfriend. When Sunny is injured in a freak accident, Bobby is forced to face the world alone.
Out in the neighborhood, Bobby encounters Rosa, a peculiar girl whose disability invites the scorn of bullies. When Bobby takes Rosa home, he meets her mother, Val, a lonely divorcee, whose job is cleaning a mobile library. Bobby and Val come to fill the emotional void in...
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : David Whitehouse
Original Source : New Epubs from KAT Wk 2
Sorted Author by LN, FN: Whitehouse, David
Title Length : 014
Title Parm D : Mobile Library
Title Parm G : Mobile Library
Num of Aut : 1
Title Parm B : (
Record ID : 8619
Uncomma Author : David Whitehouse
Title Parm A : Mobile Library
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