Literature About Broken Families
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret Author: Brian Selznick Published: January 30, 2007 Awards: 2008 Caldecott Medal, 2007 National Book Awards in the Young People's Literature category, 2007 New York Times Ten Best Illustrated Books of the Year, 2007 Quill Award, 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year for Children. Summary: Orphaned and alone except for his alcoholic uncle, Hugo finds himself living in the Paris train station. Set in the 1930's Hugo soon discovers that his uncle has also gone missing and he is alone again. Hugo maintains the clocks at the station and steals what he needs to get by. One day Hugo discovers an automaton and sets out to fix it. |
The Car
Author: Gary Paulsen Published: March 30, 1994 Summary: This book is about the adventure of Terry Anders a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in Cleveland, Ohio. One day he realized that his parents absence is going to be permanent when each calls to leave a message for the other that they are not coming back. Terry decides to go on a cross country adventure to find an uncle that he vaguely remembers. He first finds himself finally assembling his father's abandoned Blakely Bearcat kit car project. Along the way, he befriends two Vietnam vets Waylon and Wayne whom with he enjoys life on the open road. |
The Outsiders
Author: S.E. Hinton Published: April 24, 1967 Awards:New York Herald Tribune Best Teenage Books List, 1967 Chicago Tribune Book World Spring Book Festival Honor Book, 1967, Media and Methods Maxi Award, 1975 ALA Best Young Adult Books, 1975, Massachusetts Children’s Book Award, 1979 Summary: This is the story of two weeks in the life of Ponyboy Curtis. Fourteen year old Ponyboy and his brothers are known as the Greasers. The Greasers and the Socs are at opposite ends of the money scale. One night when Ponyboy is walking home from the movies he is jumped by the Socs only to be rescued by the other Greasers. The Socs threaten to slit Ponyboy's throat and this changes the course of Ponyboy's family forever. |
Hush
Author: Jacqueline Woodson Published: 2002 Awards: National Book Award Finalist, 2003 ALA Best Book for Young Adults,School Library Journal Best Book, 2002 Booklist Editor’s Choice, 2003 New York Public Libraries Books for the Teen Age,Bank Street Best Children’s Books of the Year (“Today” category / 12 & up),2003 Riverbank Review Children’s Books of Distinction Short list, 2003-2004 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award Master List, 2003-2004 Maine Student Book Award Master List, 2002 Pennsylvania School Librarians Association Young Adult Top 40 Nominees, 2004-2005 Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominee (Grades 6-8) (children’s choice award for Minnesota),2005 Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee (NJ) Summary: Toswiah and her older sister are told that they have to leave the area they grew up in. In fact the entire family is placed into the Witness Protection Program after their father witnesses a shooting. Their father had to stand up for what was right even though it tore apart everything the family had loved in Denver. |
Mosquitoland
Author: David Arnold
Published: March 3, 2015
Summary: Mim Malone leaves Ohio when her family is split by a divorce. Mim finds herself now having to live with her father and new step mom. Soon after she arrives she discovers that her mother is sick and Mim takes a bus back to Ohio. With a crazy adventure aboard a Greyhound bus, Mim discovers it is not only a journey of miles,but of self discovery.
Author: David Arnold
Published: March 3, 2015
Summary: Mim Malone leaves Ohio when her family is split by a divorce. Mim finds herself now having to live with her father and new step mom. Soon after she arrives she discovers that her mother is sick and Mim takes a bus back to Ohio. With a crazy adventure aboard a Greyhound bus, Mim discovers it is not only a journey of miles,but of self discovery.