The stars at Oktober Bend
by Glenda Millard
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Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has a brain injury, the result of an assault. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. When Manny first sees Alice, she is sitting on the rusty roof of her river house, looking like a carving on an old-fashioned ship, sailing through the stars. He has a poem in his pocket and he knows the words by heart. And he is sure that girl has written them. When Manny and Alice meet they find the beginnings of love and healing.
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Child soldiers, Teenage boys, Teenage girls, Mute persons, Juvenile fiction, Poetry, Teenage refugees, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Refugees, High schools, Wounds and injuries, People with mental disabilities, Sexual abuse, Teenagers, Children's fiction, Youth, fiction, Interpersonal relations, fictionPlaces
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The Stars at Oktober Bend
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First published in Australia and New Zealand by: Allen & Unwin, 2016.
Adolescence.
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Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone. Something inside Alice is broken: she remembers words but struggles to speak them. Still, Alice knows words are for sharing, so she pins them to posters in tucked-away places: railway waiting rooms, fish-and-chip shops, quiet corners. Manny is sixteen, with a scar from shoulder to elbow. Something inside Manny is broken: he was once a child soldier, forced to do terrible, violent things. But in a new land with new people who will care for him, he spends time exploring on foot. And in his pocket, he carries a poem he scooped up. And he knows the words by heart. When Manny and Alice meet, their relationship brings the beginning of love and healing.
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