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Pixley, Marcella.
TROWBRIDGE ROAD
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020
IL 5-8
ISBN: 978-1536207507.
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 Set in the early 80’s at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, Trowbridge Road immerses us in the lives of pre-teens June Bug and Ziggy. June Bug is struggling with the loss of her dad to AIDS and a mother battling depression and a germ phobia. Ziggy moves in down the street to live with Nana Jean after troubles of his own at school and with a mother not ready to settle down. The two kids fall into an easy friendship and escape their troubles through their wild imaginations and trips to the “9th dimension” where their problems can be wished away. June Bug narrates the book with a poetic quality and readers will fall in love with these sweet, troubled kids and a loving grandmother with an open heart and arms.  (Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, 2022)

SUBJECTS:   AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
                        Fathers -- Death -- Fiction.
                        Grief -- Fiction.
                        Fear of contamination -- Fiction.
                        Mentally ill mothers -- Fiction.
                        Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
                        Friendship -- Fiction.
                        Neighbors -- Fiction.
                        Imagination -- Fiction.

 
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