Like that it is about a person who has to pick to either make himself happy or others
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
By Annabel Pitcher
Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
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Grades 6 - 12 | Grades 4 - 7 | n/a | n/a | n/a |
My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece.
Well, some of her does.
A collarbone, two ribs, a bit of skull, and a little toe.
To ten-year-old Jamie, his family has fallen apart because of the loss of someone he barely remembers: his sister Rose, who died five years ago in a terrorist bombing. To his father, life is impossible to make sense of when he lives in a world that could so cruelly take away a ten-year-old girl. To Rose's surviving fifteen year old twin, Jas, everyday she lives in Rose's ever present shadow, forever feeling the loss like a limb, but unable to be seen for herself alone.
Told with warmth and humor, this powerful novel is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.
Told with warmth and humor, this powerful novel is a sophisticated take on one family's struggle to make sense of the loss that's torn them apart... and their discovery of what it means to stay together.
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN-13: 9781510100022
ISBN-10: 1510100024
Published on 4/23/2015
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 256