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Finn

Finn

Bortz, Bruce

Hardcover

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General Juvenile Fiction

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ISBN10: 1890862134
ISBN13: 9781890862138
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Published: Mar 1 2001
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Imagine a modern-day retelling of Mark Twains classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, with a teenage girl and a very pregnant young Mexican as the main characters. Thats the gist of Matthew Olshans brilliant literary debut, Finn: A Novel.The books narrator is Chloe Wilder, a quiet girl, part tomboy, part survivor. Rescued from a murderous life with her mother, Chloe lives with her grandparents in the cocoon of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood. For the first time in her life, things are steady, safeand stifling.Enter Silvia Morales, the grandparents' maid. Silvia is an illegal immigrant, but thats not her only secret: Shes also pregnant, a transgression which gets her kicked out of the house. Not long after, Chloe is torn from her quiet life, too, and forced to live on the run.While Finn is about Chloe and Silvias comic mishapsand their brushes with real dangeron the road, its also a dark portrait of modern America, where smug suburbanites live minutes away from the wilderness of inner cities, and once-mighty rivers meander under superhighways.Finn has been approved for ninth-grade English use statewide by the South Carolina Department of Education (2004). Its required for all high school college prep freshmen (2009).It was named one of LAs Best 100 Books for 2001 by the Los Angeles Unified School District.Finn was a finalist for the Michal L. Printz Award and the Booklist Editors Choice Award, and it was considered for the PEN/Faulkner. It was nominated for YALSA Quick Picks (for reluctant teen readers) and for Best Book of 2001) by Bookreporter.com.It was selected Best Childrens Book of 2001) by Plymouth Library, Plymouth, MI, and voted Book of the Month by Lake Mills, Wisconsin Library (2002).It was placed on the 2002 Summer Reading List for Lovett School in Atlanta, GA, and also on the Summer Reading List at Westside High School in Mason, GA.

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