Trowbridge Road (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781536226003)

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In a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage.

It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending Ziggy, an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug's connection to the world grows stronger, her mother's grows more distant -- even dangerous -- pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known.

Trowbridge Road paints an unwavering portrait of a girl and her family touched by mental illness and grief. Set in the Boston suburbs during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, the novel explores how a seemingly perfect neighborhood can contain restless ghosts and unspoken secrets. Written with deep insight and subtle lyricism by acclaimed author Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road demonstrates our power to rescue one another even when our hearts are broken.

Author: Marcella Pixley
ISBN-10: 1536226009
ISBN-13: 9781536226003
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.7
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 508420 / Trowbridge Road