On her first day of high school, fifteen-year-old Melrose Bird, a.k.a. Mel, sees a woman on a park bench staring at Drift High School where her teenage son, Alex Weber, died five years ago.
Alex Weber's death has never been discussed in the town or at the school. But Mel and her best friend Frank become obsessed with Alex's grave and consumed by the why of his suicide. When Mel happens upon a pair of Alex's cargo pants, she takes them. And what she finds inside the pockets brings into focus the story of Alex's brief life and his death.
Determined to pressure the school and the town into recognizing why Alex died, Mel embarks on a journey and confronts a world of adult secrecy and deception. Mel also contends with a peer group who greet Mel's assertion of her identity--her buzz cut and the pants she wears--by scrawling DYKE across her locker.
But anyone who thinks Mel Bird will retreat from disapproval or opposition is badly mistaken.
Sprache
Zielgruppe
Für Jugendliche
US School Grade: Ninth Grade and over, Interest Age: From 15 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Broschur/Paperback
Klebebindung
Maße
Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 136 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-935226-12-3 (9781935226123)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Jan Donley writes fiction and plays. She has lived in Oklahoma, Louisiana, Wyoming, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Indiana, Missouri, and Vermont. She currently lives in Boston with her partner Diane.
