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Unbecoming / Jenny Downham.

By: New York : David Fickling Books, c2016 copyright 2016Description: 375 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781338160727
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • .D749 2016
Summary: "Katie is seventeen and in love with someone whose identity she's afraid to reveal. Caroline, Katie's mother, is uptight, worn out, and about to find the past catching up with her. Mary, Katie's grandmother, suffers from Alzheimer's and suddenly appears after years of mysterious absence. As Katie cares for an elderly woman who brings daily chaos to her life, she finds herself drawn to the grandmother she never knew she had. Rules get broken as allegiances shift. Is Mary contagious? Is "badness" genetic? In confronting the past, Katie is forced to seize the present. As Mary slowly unravels and family secrets are revealed, Katie learns to live and finally dares to love in this vivid and exhilarating celebration of life, infused with Jenny Downham's signature warmth, humor and wisdom." --Provided by publisher.
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Print Materials Main Library High School .D749 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) In transit from Main Library to High School Library since 12/16/2022 0119800

"This book was originally published in hardcover in 2016 by Scholastic Inc., by arrangement with David Fickling Books. First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by David Fickling Books, 31 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2NP." --Verso of title page

"Katie is seventeen and in love with someone whose identity she's afraid to reveal. Caroline, Katie's mother, is uptight, worn out, and about to find the past catching up with her. Mary, Katie's grandmother, suffers from Alzheimer's and suddenly appears after years of mysterious absence.
As Katie cares for an elderly woman who brings daily chaos to her life, she finds herself drawn to the grandmother she never knew she had. Rules get broken as allegiances shift. Is Mary contagious? Is "badness" genetic? In confronting the past, Katie is forced to seize the present. As Mary slowly unravels and family secrets are revealed, Katie learns to live and finally dares to love in this vivid and exhilarating celebration of life, infused with Jenny Downham's signature warmth, humor and wisdom." --Provided by publisher.

Young Adult

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