By Elizabeth Acevedo (author)
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How am I spun from such good people? When did I unravel? The stunning new novel from the Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of The Poet X, full of poetry, heart and humour Seventeen-year-old Lil is anything but small. She's rebellious, she's loyal; she's figuring out what kind of good person she wants to be, or if she wants to be a good person at all. But more than anything? Lil wants to be free.
Because Lil is on probation, and she's trying really hard to be New Lil - follow the rules, keep her head down, take a breath and smile till her court hearing in three weeks' time . But Old Lil keeps rearing her head - the one that wants to go, run, find a way to open the pot lid to let the angry steam out.
And when Aldwin's silences turn to something more alarming - to talk of nightmares, of hearing voices - Lil knows that she is the only one who can help him. But he's hundreds of miles away and a stark truth is staring Lil directly in the face: how can she get to him without putting her future freedom on the line?
Does doing the right thing mean losing everything?
Elizabeth Acevedo is the New York Times bestselling and 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of THE POET X. She is also the winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, The Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children's Fiction and the Pura Belpré Award for a work that best affirms the Latinx cultural experience.
A few spoken work performances and a TED talk can be found here .
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How am I spun from such good people?When did I unravel?The stunning new novel from the Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of The Poet X, full of poetry, heart and humourSeventeen-year-old Lil is anything but small. She's rebellious, she's loyal; she's figuring out what kind of good person she wants to be, or if she wants to be a good person at all.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Anger Is Only a Shadow and determined it is suitable for children aged 15-18 years old
Anger Is Only a Shadow features in the following genres: Featured Books for Young Adults, Stories about Family and Friends, Stories in Verse, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Recommendations, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational
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Anger Is Only a Shadow was written by Elizabeth Acevedo and published by Hot Key Books an imprint of Bonnier Books UK
Anger Is Only a Shadow has 311 pages
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