Hurricane child / Kacen Callender
- Author
- Callender, Kacen
- Published
- New York : Scholastic Inc., [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Physical Description
- 211 pages ; 20 cm
- Summary
- Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.
- Subject(s)
- African American girls—Juvenile fiction
- Mothers and daughters—Juvenile fiction
- Missing persons—Juvenile fiction
- Fathers and daughters—Juvenile fiction
- Friendship—Juvenile fiction
- Hurricanes—Juvenile fiction
- Acting out (Psychology)—Juvenile fiction
- African American lesbians—Juvenile fiction
- Acting out (Psychology)
- African American girls
- African American lesbians
- Fathers and daughters
- Friendship
- Hurricanes
- Missing persons
- Mothers and daughters
- United States Virgin Islands—Juvenile fiction
- United States Virgin Islands
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 1338129317 (paperback)
9781338129311 (paperback) - Note
- Includes After words: About the author; Q&A with Karen Callender; A sneak peek at King and the dragonflies.
- Awards
- Stonewall Book Award, Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Award, 2019
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