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Published:
Candlewick Press 2015
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Street Date:
02/10/2015
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780763670450
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Level 5.4, 10 Points
Lexile measure:
830

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Jennifer Richard Jacobson. (2015). Paper Things. Candlewick Press.

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Jennifer Richard Jacobson. 2015. Paper Things. Candlewick Press.

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Jennifer Richard Jacobson, Paper Things. Candlewick Press, 2015.

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Jennifer Richard Jacobson. Paper Things. Candlewick Press, 2015.

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        Author of the Andy Shane series, Jennifer says that she can sympathize with both Andy and his counterpart, Dolores. Like Andy she can be a dreamer, a planner—someone who likes to take time to think things over. But like the boisterous Dolores, she's also persistent. Once she's decided on a goal, she doesn't give up.
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When forced to choose between staying with her guardian and being with her big brother, Ari chose her big brother. There's just one problem—Gage doesn't actually have a place to live.
When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when nineteen-year-old Gage decides he can no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knows she has to go with him. But it's been two months, and Gage still hasn't found them an apartment. He and Ari have been "couch surfing," staying with Gage's friend in a tiny apartment, crashing with Gage's girlfriend and two roommates, and if necessary, sneaking into a juvenile shelter to escape the cold Maine nights. But all of this jumping around makes it hard for Ari to keep up with her schoolwork, never mind her friendships, and getting into Carter starts to seem impossible. Will Ari be forced to break one of her promises to Mama? Told in an open, authentic voice, this nuanced story of hiding in plain sight may have readers thinking about homelessness in a whole new way.

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