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If I Ever Get Out of Here

Name: If I Ever Get Out of Here
ISBN: 9780545417310

Eric Gansworth

Scholastic Inc. · Print & ebook · April 28, 2015

Reading lane: Native American YA

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African American YA Prejudice & Racism for Teens Native American YA history

friendship

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Why This Clicks

Music and Friendship

A Beatles-loving friendship brings humor and warmth to a story shaped by poverty and prejudice.

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The easy pull of shared music and joking friendship
A clear-eyed look at poverty and being singled out

Expect

Warmth alongside difficult truths
A sustained coming-of-age story in 1975

Book Details

Authors: Eric Gansworth
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: April 28, 2015
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Native American YA · Prejudice & Racism for Teens
Reading lane: Native American YA

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Native American YA
Bullying for Teens
Friendship for Teens

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Now in paperback: The debut novel Laurie Halse Anderson praised for "fearlessly laying down the truth" about friendship, poverty, and the joys of rock 'n' roll. Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend?