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The summer of bitter and sweet / Jen Ferguson.

Ferguson, Jenny, 1985- (author.).

Summary:

"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life-Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him, no matter how much he insists. While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer and warmer than she would have thought possible, when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't ignore her father forever."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780063086166
  • ISBN: 0063086166
  • Physical Description: 360 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"There are discussions about and references to a violent sexual assault; an instance of intimate partner abuse; instances of racism and physical assault toward Indigeous and Black teens; discussions of drug use; underage alcohol use. This book centers the traumas faced by Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people, and one narrative of the ongoing human rights crisis happening now in the colonial nations of Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico. More broadly, this book includes discussion of generational trauma from residential schools, the living, contemporary systems that overtook residential schools: the Sixties Scoop, the Millenial Scoop, and other instances of child welfare systems serving the needs of colonialism through mechanisms like birth alerts." -- from A Few Things About This Book section of book
Target Audience Note:
13 and up. Ingram.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.2 13 518429.
Awards Note:
Stonewall Book Award - Honor Book - Young Adult - 2023
William C. Morris YA Debut Award -- Honor Book - Young Adult Literature - 2023

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Best friends > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Identity (Philosophical concept) > Fiction.
Ex-convicts > Fiction.
Métis youth > Fiction.
Métis > Fiction.
Sexual minorities > Fiction.
LGBTQIA.
Multiracial people > Fiction
LGBTQ+ people.
Sexual minorities.
Canada > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Social problem fiction.
Young adult fiction.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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