Burning
Elana K. Arnold,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Random House Children's Books on 06-11-2013
Elana K. Arnold,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Random House Children's Books on 06-11-2013
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780385743341 (0385743343)
ASIN: 9780385743341
Publish date: 11-06-2013
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Contemporary Romance,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Young Adult Contemporary,
New Adult
Ben's town is folding up. The mine's bust and everyone is forced to go somewhere else to build new homes, join new communities, get new jobs. Ben's case is different. He gets a college scholarship and although guilty about it, Ben is looking forward to the future. Lala is a Romani. Being a Gypsy mea...
Goddamn it. Why is it so hard to write three star reviews? Seriously, I’d almost prefer reading a book that pisses me off to one that I feel ambivalent about because at least then I have plenty to say afterwards. So where to start? Um…I guess with a summary because, you know, it’s not like you can’t...
Young Adult, as a genre, has been falling out of favor with me. To be fair, I never really loved it and only dabbled in it to find those occasionally great stories. Burning is probably a book that I would have passed by at nearly any other time, but something about the blurb caught my eye. Maybe it ...
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It’s been how long since I last posted? BURNING is different but not quite. But first, to the positive: it had me asking if people still lived still live like that because I confess the idea of gypsy family roaming from place to place was almost unreal to me. The way it’s set up here though makes it...