International Standard Book Number |
9781481465830
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International Standard Book Number |
148146583X
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Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
[Fic]
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Personal Name |
Williams, Alicia, 1970- author.
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Title Statement |
Mid-air / by Alicia D. Williams ; illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff.
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Edition Statement |
First edition.
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Imprint |
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2024.
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Physical Description |
313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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General Note |
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy Book."
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Summary, Etc. |
A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough and unfeeling. It's the last few months of eighth grade, and Isaiah feels lost. He thought his summer was going to be him and his boys Drew and Darius, hanging out, doing wheelies, watching martial arts movies, and breaking tons of Guinness World Records before high school. But now, more and more, Drew seems to be fading from their friendship, and though he won't admit it, Isaiah knows exactly why. Because Darius is...gone. A hit and run killed Darius in the midst of a record-breaking long wheelie when Isaiah should have been keeping watch, ready to warn: "CAR!" Now, Drew can barely look at Isaiah. But Isaiah, already quaking with ache and guilt, can't lose two friends. So, he comes up with a plan to keep Drew and him together--they can spend the summer breaking records, for Darius. But Drew's not the same Drew since Darius was killed, and Isaiah, being Isaiah, isn't enough for Drew anymore. Not his taste in clothes, his love for rock music, or his aversion to jumping off rooftops. And one day something unspeakable happens to Isaiah that makes him think Drew's right. If only he could be less sensitive, more tough, less weird, more cool, less him, things would be easier. But how much can Isaiah keep inside until he shatters wide open?
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Target Audience Note |
Ages 10 up. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
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Target Audience Note |
Grades 7-9. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Fiction
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African Americans Juvenile fiction
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Friendship Juvenile fiction
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identity (Psychology) Juvenile fiction
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Life change events Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identity (Philosophical concept) Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Identity Fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Skateboarding Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief Fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief Juvenile fiction
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Emotions in adolescence Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief in adolescence Juvenile fiction.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Guilt in adolescence Juvenile fiction.
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Index Term-Genre/Form |
Bildungsromans
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Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels in verse
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Index Term-Genre/Form |
Psychological fiction
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Added Entry, Personal Name |
Novgorodoff, Danica illustrator.
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