The astonishing color of after / Emily X.R. Pan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018Copyright date: Edition: First editionDescription: 472 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Educational level group: High school students
  • Educational level group: High school freshmen
  • Educational level group: High school sophomores
  • Educational level group: High school juniors
  • Educational level group: High school seniors
  • Age group: Teenagers
ISBN:
  • 9780316463997
  • 031646399X
  • 9780316464017
  • 0316464015
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813/.6 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.P3573 Ast 2018
  • PS3616.A3577 A88 2018
Online resources: Awards:
  • A Junior Library Guild selection, July 2018
  • Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature Honor, 2019
  • Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2018
  • Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction, 2018
  • CILIP Carnegie Medal Longlist, 2019
  • Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/High School Literature, 2018
  • Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Nominee, 2020
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature Finalist, 2018
  • New York Public Library Best Books for Teens, 2018
  • School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018
  • Walter Honor, Teen Category, 2019
Summary: After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.Summary: Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.
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After her mother's suicide, grief-stricken Leigh Sanders travels to Taiwan to stay with grandparents she never met, determined to find her mother who she believes turned into a bird.

Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: when her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. When she travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time, Leigh is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.

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A Junior Library Guild selection, July 2018

Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature Honor, 2019

Booklist Editors' Choice: Books for Youth, 2018

Chicago Public Library Best Teen Fiction, 2018

CILIP Carnegie Medal Longlist, 2019

Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/High School Literature, 2018

Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Nominee, 2020

Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature Finalist, 2018

New York Public Library Best Books for Teens, 2018

School Library Journal's Best Books, 2018

Walter Honor, Teen Category, 2019

Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.8 15 193765.

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