| The Blind Faith Hotel Contributor(s): Todd, Pamela (Author) |
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ISBN: 1416954945 ISBN-13: 9781416954941 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: Fourteen-year-old Zoe wonders how she'll survive after her family falls apart. A shoplifting episode lands her in a work program at a local nature preserve. The work starts to stabilize Zoe, and when she meets a boy who shares her love of wild things, it seems she might be home after all. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming Of Age - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - New Experience |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2007043912 |
| Lexile Measure: 780 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 4.98" W x 8.02" (0.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Topical - Divorce - Cultural Region - Plains |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 126465 Reading Level: 5.1 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When her family falls apart, fourteen-year-old Zoe feels like her whole world is going to pieces. Zoe's mother takes her kids away from their father, a fisherman who ships out to Alaska, and moves them to a run-down farmhouse she's inherited in the Midwest. Zoe's stuck -- in more ways than one. Surrounded by strangers and a sea of prairie grass, she loses her bearings. A brush with the law lands Zoe in a work program at a local nature preserve. But the work starts to ground and steady her. When she meets a wild boy who shares her love of untamed places, it seems he might help Zoe find her way. Or is he too lost, too damaged himself? Funny and poignant, sharp-eyed and real, this is a portrait of a girl looking for her own true self and a place she can call home. |
Contributor Bio(s): Todd, Pamela: - Pamela Todd was awarded the Green Earth Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for The Blind Faith Hotel. She has also received grants from the Ragdale Foundation and a grant from the Illinois Arts Council to teach journal writing in a women's prison. She lives outside of Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and their children, and is an avid prairie gardener. To learn more, visit her website at www.pamelatodd.com. |