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O’Sullivan, Joanne.
BETWEEN TWO SKIES
Somerville : Candlewick, 2017
IL 5-8
ISBN 9780763690342

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Evangeline loves living in Bayou Perdu. She feels most at home while out in her skiff on the bayou, fishing and watching the pelicans fly overhead. When the initial warnings of Hurricane Katrina come, at first folks in the Bayou just ignore them. After all, hurricanes are nothing new to the people of New Orleans. When it becomes clear that the storm is truly powerful, Evangeline and her family grab what they can and head to Georgia. While trying to start over in Georgia, she can’t stop thinking of the best friends she left behind, or of Tru, the boy she met just before they left. A beautifully wrought story of someone who needs to put her life back together when everything she knew was lost. It is about the power of family and the joy and tenderness of new love. (Mary Beth Kurspahić, Risdon Middle School  https://evergreenbookaward.org/)


SUBJECTS:    Broken homes -- Fiction.
                        Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
                        Refugees -- Fiction.
                        Social classes -- Fiction.
                        New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.

 
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