| Ten Mile River Contributor(s): Griffin, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0142419834 ISBN-13: 9780142419830 Publisher: Speak OUR PRICE: $7.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty - Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Runaways |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 590 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.45 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 123544 Reading Level: 3.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 5.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Best friends Ray and Jose are not your typical teenagers. They've escaped foster care and juvenile detention centers to live on their own together in an abandoned stationhouse in New York City's Ten Mile River Park. Ray and Jose are as close as brothers. But then they meet Trini, the smart, beautiful, and confident girl from their local barber shop, and they both fall for her immediately. As tension creeps into their relationship, Ray must struggle to find an identity separate from Jose and try to envision a future for himself beyond Jose and Ten Mile River. Griffin has a particular gift for dialogue that not only sounds authentic but also serves to define characters whom he knows inside and out. His is clearly a talent to watch. - Booklist, review of Ten Mile River |