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1 online resource (312 pages) |
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| Summary |
Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take your breath away.Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads down.But when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a fight and beating their high school's star soccer player to a pulp. This act of violence threatens the brothers' dreams for the future and their beliefs about who they are. As the true details of that fateful afternoon unfold over the course of the novel, Max and Jay grapple with the weight of their actions, their shifting relationship as brothers, and the realization that they may be more like their father than they thought. They'll have to reach back to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.Told in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems, debut author Ari Tison crafts an emotional, slow-burning drama about brotherhood, abuse, recovery, and doing the right thing. |
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HL 680 Lexile. |
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Ages 14-18. Farrar Straus Giroux. |
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Grades 10-12. Farrar Straus Giroux. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Brothers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Violence -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Juvenile fiction.
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Costa Rican Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Bribri Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
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Indians of Central America -- Costa Rica -- Juvenile fiction.
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Indigenous peoples -- Costa Rica -- Juvenile fiction.
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Brothers -- Fiction.
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Behavior -- Fiction.
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Violence -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Costa Rican Americans -- Fiction.
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Bribri Indians -- Fiction.
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Indians of Central America -- Costa Rica -- Fiction.
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Novels.
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Young adult fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
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Social problem fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Tison, Ari. Saints of the household New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023 9780374389499 (DLC) 2022034675 |
| ISBN |
9780374389482 |
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0374389489 |
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