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Blake, Ashley Herring.
IVY ABERDEEN'S LETTER TO THE WORLD
New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
IL 5-8
ISBN 9780316515467 
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 When their home is destroyed by a tornado, Ivy’s family spends the night in a community shelter. It is there that Ivy’s precious notebook, full of her darkest secrets, is lost in the chaos. Still reeling from the trauma of losing her home, Ivy develops a crush on her classmate, June. As the two girls grow closer, Ivy suspects that her notebook has been found by a mystery person who urges her to come out to someone she trusts. Meanwhile, Ivy struggles with being the overlooked middle child of parents preoccupied by her twin baby brothers and the loss of their home. Blake paints a sensitive picture of first love against the background of a family in crisis. Ivy is a beautifully flawed and complete character readers of all ages will relate to. (Oklahoma Sequoyah Book Awards, 2020)

SUBJECTS:   Family life -- Fiction.
                        Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Artists -- Fiction.
                        Lesbians -- Fiction.
                        Coming out (Sexual orientation) -- Fiction.
                        Tornadoes -- Fiction.
                        Families -- Fiction.

 
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