| Description |
205 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds her job working side by side with at-risk teens to be an initiation into a new world that she has no skill in navigating. This uncomfortable and compelling memoir is an important story of a girl's awakening to the racial insularity of her life, the power of white privilege, and the hidden story of segregation in Portland. |
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Race relations -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Forest restoration -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Teenagers -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Life change events -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Summer employment -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Cultural pluralism -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Home schooling -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Portland (Or.) -- Comic books, strips, etc.
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Summer employment -- Fiction.
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Cultural pluralism -- Fiction.
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Home schooling -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Young adult fiction.
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Graphic novels.
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Young adult fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781549303050 (pbk) |
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1549303058 (pbk) |
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