The other side of perfect / Melanie Florence and Richard Scrimger.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Scholastic Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 247 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781339002859
- 133900285X
- Autumn Bird & the runaway
- Runaway teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Indigenous children -- Juvenile fiction
- Abused children -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Victims of family violence -- Juvenile fiction
- Cree Indians -- Juvenile fiction
- Social classes -- Juvenile fiction
- Racism against Indigenous peoples -- Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse -- Juvenile fiction
- Toronto (Ont.) -- Juvenile fiction
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Two kids from two different worlds form an unexpected friendship in this lens into the interworking of empathy. Told in alternating narratives, The Other Side of Perfect is infused with themes of identity, belonging, and compassion, reminding us that we are all more than our circumstances, and we are all more connected than we think.
Cody's home life is a messy, too-often terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Cody himself is a smart kid, a survivor with a great sense of humor that helps him see past his circumstances and begin to try to get himself out. Autumn is a wealthy girl from an indigenous family, who has found herself in with the popular crowd even though it's hard for her to want to keep up.
But one night, while returning home from a movie, Autumn comes across Cody, face down in the laneway behind her house. All Cody knows is that he can't take another encounter with his father like the one he just narrowly escaped. He can't go home. But he doesn't have anywhere else to go. When Autumn agrees to let him hide out in her dad's art studio, Cody's story begins to come out, and so does hers.
First published as Autumn Bird & the runaway in Canada.
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy, loving Indigenous family, who is "in" with the popular crowd at school, even though it is hard for her to want to keep up.