When Dad Killed Mom

When Dad Killed Mom - Paperback

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When Dad Killed Mom - Paperback

When Dad Killed Mom - Paperback

by Julius Lester
$16.07
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Book Overview

Jenna and Jeremy knew their parents' marriage was in trouble. But no one could have predicted what would come next. Now with Mom dead and Dad in jail, Jenna and Jeremy must re-create a family of their own. But each guards a secret that could send their fragile new lives into a tailspin.
Newbery Honor winner Julius Lester paints a dramatic portrait of a family forced to confront the unimaginable.
Reader's guide included.
ISBN9780152046989
Author Julius Lester
PublisherClarion Books
GenreYoung adult and Family
FormatPaperback
PublishedDecember 2012
LanguageENG- English
Pages216
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Julius Lester

Julius Lester was an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of books for both adults and children. He won numerous awards, including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Newbery Honor Medal, the American Library Association Notable Book award, the New York Times Out­standing Book award, the Caldecott Honor Book award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His novel To Be a Slave is the first Newbery Medal Honor Book by a Black author. He taught for over three decades at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he was awarded all three of the university's most prestigious faculty awards. Mr. Lester passed away in 2018 at the age of seventy-eight.

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