If I ever get out of here : a novel with paintings / Eric Gansworth.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: 359 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780545417303 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 0545417309 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 9780545417310 (paper back)
- 0545417317 (paper back)
- If I ever get out of here
- Tuscarora Indians -- Juvenile fiction
- Families of military personnel -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction
- Tuscarora Nation Reservation (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (State) -- Ethnic relations -- Juvenile fiction
- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile 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 | Ganswort Eric L. | Available | 33111008095503 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name .Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend? Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock 'n' roll.
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.