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Before Nightfall

Before Nightfall

Vecchini, Silvia
Brock, Geoffrey
Sualzo

Paperback

FamilyGeneral Juvenile Fiction

Publisher Price: $13.99

ISBN10: 1681377926
ISBN13: 9781681377926
Publisher: Nyrb Kids
Published: Mar 19 2024
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.10
Language: English
A moving tale about a brave hearing-impaired teen losing his vision, told through the perspective of his loving sister in poetry, prose, and the sign-language alphabet.

Carlo is a teenager who happens to be hearing-impaired and can see only out of one eye. Now that eye is failing, and Carlo must have an operation to try to save his vision. His fierce and funny sister Emma, Carlo's closest companion, begins writing poems that express the fear she works hard to hide, while his seeing-eye dog Lulù remains steadfastly at his side. But even with the support and affection of his family, how can Carlo face such uncertainty? And what will happen if he can no longer communicate with them? Before Nightfall is a book about trust, imagination, empathy, and language, narrated through the poems Emma types and through prose passages told from multiple perspectives and illustrated with sign-language alphabet, drawn by the Italian artist Sualzo. Despite the immense challenges Carlo and Emma face, their story is one of hope and wonder.

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