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In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage.It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending Ziggy, an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug's connection to the world grows stronger, her mother's grows more distant - even dangerous - pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known.
About the Author
Marcella Pixley is the acclaimed author of four novels for young people. FREAK, FSG 2007 was named a Kirkus Review Best Book of the Year, WITHOUT TESS was a Junior Library Guild Selection, and READY TO FALL was a Jewish Advocate Best Book of 2017. Her new book TROWBRIDGE ROAD is a Junior Library Guild Selection and will be released by Candlewick Press in October 2020. Trowbridge Road was recently long listed for the National Book Award. Her poetry has been widely published in literary journals such as Prairie Schooner, Feminist Studies, Poet Lore and Sow's Ear Poetry Review. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Marcella is a middle school English teacher who loves leading writing workshops for aspiring writers of all ages.
