SuitabookResponsibility for adults
July often feels like the responsible adult while worrying about her mother’s choices and seeking her former foster mother’s help.
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E. L. Norry - Author
This is a contemporary survival story about two children carrying adult worries, seeking trustworthy help and finding support in one another. Its central concerns include family instability, homelessness, friendship and the meaning of home.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a contemporary survival story about two children carrying adult worries, seeking trustworthy help and finding support in one another. Its central concerns include family instability, homelessness, friendship and the meaning of home.
July often feels like the responsible adult while worrying about her mother’s choices and seeking her former foster mother’s help.
Both children leave home in desperate circumstances and face money worries, danger and uncertainty about where they can sleep or turn.
July and Jamie have different family lives but meet while running in the same direction and become companions who rely on one another.
Some situations may deserve preparation: a parent’s drug and alcohol difficulties, foster care, bereavement, family separation, homelessness, dangerous people, racial profiling, injustice and an accident.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
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