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Ruby, Laura. THIRTEEN DOORWAYS, WOLVES BEHIND THEM ALL New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019] IL YA ISBN 9780062317643 |
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Narrated by a ghost (that’s right - a ghost. Her name is Pearl.), this piece of inventive historical fiction is set in an orphanage during the lead up to and time during World War II. Frankie, her younger sister, Toni, and their older brother, Vito, were brought to the orphanage after their mother died and their father could no longer care for them. When their father remarries and shows up with train tickets to go out West, the siblings believe things are turning around. They’re not. Vito is the only one who gets to go with their father and his new family, leaving the girls behind to navigate the harsh realities of growing up in a stark environment, navigating complicated relationships on their own. Pearl is there for all of it, filling us in on the details of Frankie’s life...while also shedding light on her own story and its grim details. *Finalist, National Book Awards 2019 for Young People's Literature (Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award 2020-2021) |
| SUBJECTS: Ghosts -- Fiction. Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) -- 20th century -- Fiction. |
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