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1 online resource (310 pages) |
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text file rda |
| Summary |
Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. Meg Medina transports us to a time when tempers and temperatures ran high to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit. |
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HL 680 Lexile. |
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HL680L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.5 10 180933 |
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Accelerated Reader UG 4.5 10 180933 |
| Summary |
During the summer of 1977 when New York City is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam, seventeen-year-old Nora must also face her family's financial woes, her father's absence, and her brother's growing violence. |
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It is the summer of 1977, and New York is suffering under a heat wave, a massive blackout, and a killer named the Son of Sam, while seventeen-year-old Cuban American Nora Lopez wants to escape her increasingly violent younger brother and worries about college applications and paying rent to spend her days working at the deli with the cute new Colombian boy and her nights at the disco dancing with her best friend Kathleen. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Cuban Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Cuban Americans -- Fiction.
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Family problems -- Fiction.
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Disco dancing -- Fiction.
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Electric power failures -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Serial murders -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Electric power failures. |
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Serial murders. |
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Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Coming of age -- Fiction.
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Medina, Meg. Burn baby burn Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2016 9780763674670 (DLC) 2015954454 (OCoLC)937704595 |
| ISBN |
9780763679989 : $8.99 |
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0763679984 : $8.99 |
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