| Descript |
376 pages ; 22 cm |
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age Children lcdgt |
| Note |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.3 13 198318. |
| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (page 381). |
| Summary |
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island. |
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Zara and her mother, Nadja, have a strained relationship. Nadja just doesn't understand Zara's creative passion for, and self-expression through, photography. And Zara doesn't know how to reach beyond their differences and connect to a closed-off mother who refuses to speak about her past in Bosnia. But when a bomb explodes as they're shopping in their local farmers' market in Rhode Island, Zara is left with PTSD--and her mother is left in a coma. Without the opportunity to get to know her mother, Zara is left with questions--not just about her mother, but about faith, religion, history, and her own path forward. As Zara tries to sort through her confusion, she meets Joseph, whose grandmother is also in the hospital, and whose exploration of religion and philosophy offer comfort and insight into Zara's own line of thinking. |
| Audience |
HL610L Lexile |
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Decoding demand: 97 (very high) Semantic demand: 100 (very high) Syntactic demand: 86 (very high) Structure demand: 88 (very high) Lexile |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Juvenile fiction.
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Terrorism -- Juvenile fiction.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Juvenile fiction.
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Bosnian Americans -- Juvenile fiction.
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Photography -- Juvenile fiction.
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Faith -- Juvenile fiction.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina -- History -- 1992- -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Genre |
Young adult literature. |
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Historical fiction.
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Young adult fiction. |
| Added Title |
We are all that is left. |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9780399175541 (hardback) |
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0399175547 (hardback) |
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