ISBN: 9780593376386
Editorial: Random House Books for Young Readers
Autor: Matheson, Christie
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 192
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: A heart-wrenching middle grade debut that considers homelessness from one girl's perspective and explores deep truths about the resounding impact of empathy. Perfect for fans of One for the Murphys and Paper Things.Fifth grade can be tough for anyone. There are cliques and mean kids and homework and surprise math tests. But after tragedy strikes her family, almost-eleven-year-old Maya has a painful secret that makes many days feel nearly impossible.And today might be Maya's toughest yet. Her family is on edge, she needs to travel alone across the city, a bully is out to get her, and Maya has to face this winter's biggest rainstorm without a coat or an umbrella.But even on the rainiest days, there's hope that the sun will come out soon.Emotional and compassionate, Shelter looks at homelessness through one girl's eyes and explores the power of empathy, friendship, and love.Review"Brings a pressing national crisis into clear focus for young readers; highly recommended." —Kirkus Reviews"By turns heartbreaking and affirming, this novel reminds readers what is most important—and what we often take for granted. . . . An important purchase for upper elementary and early middle school collections." —School Library JournalAbout the AuthorChristie Matheson is the author and illustrator of many picture books, including Tap the Magic Tree, Touch the Brightest Star, and Bird Watch. Shelter is her first novel. She lives in San Francisco with her family. Find her on Instagram at @christiematheson.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.6:32 a.m. I open my eyes. Through a small window, I see a hint of light in the winter morning sky. That tells me it’s time to wake up.But I curl my legs tighter to my chest under my blanket. I didn’t sleep very well, partly because it was one of those nights when my feet never got all the way warm. Outside the blanket will be even chillier, and I’m not ready to leave the relative warmth of my little nest. I also have an ache in my stomach, and I can’t feel if it’s because I’m sad or because I’m anxious about everything that’s happening today. Probably both. It’s not easy to get out of bed when you have that waking-up ache.Still, I know if I don’t get up now, I’ll be late to school. I don’t want to be late. It’s a Friday, and I have a ninety-minute art period today. Plus, as exhausting as school can be, at least being there feels almost normal. Unlike every other part of my life.Slowly, I peel my blanket off, sit up, and glance out the window again. There’s no sign of rain, but I heard my PE teacher say yesterday that it’s going to pour today. As if today weren’t going to be hard enough already.I swing my feet onto the floor. Yikes. It’s cold.San Francisco, where I live, doesn’t get freezing the way some places do. But on wet winter days, it’s chilly. And this room, which never gets much sunlight and is heated by a system that only works some of the time, is especially cold.I know that in many ways I’m lucky to live in San Francisco. It’s supposed to rain later, but the temperature should reach fifty degrees today. There are parts of Iowa and Minnesota where it will be negative fifty with the windchill factor.I shiver in my pajamas, which are getting thin and are too short for me. I’ve had them since I was eight. I’m almost eleven now. They have pink and red hearts on them, which is perfect for February, and today is February 1. But I wear them all year long. They’ve been my favorites for a long time, and right now they’re the only pajamas I have. I take them off, shivering, and fold them so I can wear them again tonight.As quietly as I can, I pull on navy blue leggings and a white shirt. The leggings have a hole in the left knee, and the shirt is stained in the front. No matter how hard I scrub it, that stain won’t come out. But when I pull my blue-and-white-plaid school uniform jumper over them, the hole and stain are barely noticeable. And at
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