After Iris : a novel / by Natasha Farrant.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2013.Description: 260 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0803739826 (hardcover)
- 9780803739826 (hardcover)
- Au pairs -- Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction
- Diaries -- Juvenile fiction
- Families -- England -- London -- Juvenile fiction
- Grief -- Juvenile fiction
- Twins -- Juvenile fiction
- Video recordings -- Production and direction -- Juvenile fiction
- Family life -- England -- London -- Fiction
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Fiction | Farrant Natasha | Available | 33111007449271 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An unforgettable middle-grade debut that will steal your heart
Blue Gadsby's twin sister, Iris, died three years ago and her family has never been the same. Her histrionic older sister, Flora, changes her hair color daily; her younger siblings, Jasmine and Twig, are completely obsessed with their pet rats; and both of her parents spend weeks away from home-and each other. Enter Zoran the Bosnian male au pair and Joss the troublemaking boy next door, and life for the Gadsby family takes a turn for the even more chaotic. Blue poignantly captures her family's trials and tribulations from fragmented to fully dysfunctional to ultimately reunited, in a sequence of film transcripts and diary entries that will make you cry, laugh, and give thanks for the gift of families.
With the charm of The Penderwicks and the poignancy of When You Reach Me , Natasha Farrant's After Iris is a story that will stay with readers long after the last page.
Twelve-year-old Bluebell Gadsby's written and video diary chronicles life in a rowdy London family, and how Zoran, the new au pair, and Joss, the troublemaking boy next door, help to pull her out of her shell and cope with the loss of her twin three years before.