Category: | Book |
By (author): | Dowding, Philippa |
Subject: | JUVENILE FICTION / Age 10-14 Canadian |
JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes) | |
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Homelessness & Poverty | |
Publisher: | Cormorant Books |
Published: | February 2021 |
Format: | Book-paperback |
Pages: | 192 |
Size: | 8.00in x 5.37in x 0.25in |
From The Publisher* | Firefly lived in the park across from her mother's home. It was safer there. But after the bad night happens, and her baseball-bat-wielding mother is taken away, social services sends Firefly to live with her Aunt Gayle. She hardly knows Gayle, but discovers that she owns a costume shop. Yes, Firefly might be suffering from PTSD, but she can get used to taking baths, sleeping on a bed again, and wearing as many costumes as she can to school. But where is "home"? What is "family"? Who is Firefly, for that matter … and which costume is the real one? |
From The Publisher* | A thirteen-year-old girl who prefers homelessness to living with her abusive mother is sent to live with an aunt, whose costume shop helps her discover who she is, and what a family is. |