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In
The Garage
by Alma Fullerton
Red Deer Press
ISBN 0889953716
“I'm up here, in front of God, the
priest, and the congregation listening to EVERY SINGLE
AMPLIFIED BREATH, of every person in front of me, unable
to say a God-damn word about the guy who was my best
friend for eight years. All I can do is stand silent,
and think about how it all began.”
Anguish and loneliness, the pressure to
conform versus the yearning to be different, the ongoing
need to discover one's identity--they're all part of
the fabric of this tightly written, disturbing, but
compelling teen novel. Barbara Jean has always suffered
from low self-esteem. She has a dark birthmark on her
face and has repeatedly suffered the taunts of others
her age for whom she is a natural target, a victim.
One of the very few who has treated her with respect
is her best friend, Alex. What's ripping her apart as
the story opens is that she knows she has betrayed him
in the worst possible way. She didn't realize that he
needed her support just as much as she needed his, when
he realized the truth of his feelings for their new
bandmate, David.
Truth and rumour, fantasy and reality,
love and prejudice collide in a terrible, violent moment
that will change their lives forever.
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Libertad
by Alma Fullerton
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
ISBN 978-1-55455-106-4
244 pages
With their father gone to America to make money for
his family, Libertad, his little brother Julio, and
their mother scrape a living out of a dump in Guatemala
City. Although it is too late for him, Libertad is determined
that his little brother should go to school. Taught
to play the marimba by his father, Libertad uses his
talent as a street musician to raise enough money for
his brother's school supplies. But his dreams for their
future are destroyed when their mother is killed in
a freak accident. Libertad must face the inevitable
truth; they cannot survive on the streets of Guatemala
City alone. There is only one thing to do. They must
set out on the long and lonely journey to the Rio Grande
River, where they plan to cross the water and enter
the United States to find their father.
A moving story about determination and hope, Libertad
is a stunning free verse novel by the author of In
the Garage and Walking on Glass.
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Walking
On Glass
by Alma Fullerton
Harper Collins
ISBN 9780060778514
144 pages
A 16-year-old boy's mother's attempted
suicide has left her brain-dead and hooked up to life
support. He struggles with the hardest decision of his
life. He knows she wouldn't want to live this way, but
if he unhooks her life support is that murder or mercy?
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