Made in Maine / Shawn Samuelson Henry.
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TextPublisher: Norwalk, CT : Woodhall Press, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: 373 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781954907805Subject(s): High school students -- Fiction | Unemployed -- Fiction | Fund raising -- Fiction | Family problems -- Fiction | Secrets -- Fiction | Schools -- Fiction | Maine -- FictionGenre/Form: Fiction.DDC classification: [Fic] LOC classification: PZ7.1.H4648 | Mad 2023Summary: "It's as if they are living in a country music song. When the mill closes, Edgewater's economy and hope collapse. Hunter's father starts drinking and becomes an embarrassment and liability to Hunter, who's trying to balance his high-maintenance girlfriend with life on the basketball court. Luna, attending in-person school for the first time in her 17 years, has no friends and hides behind her hoodie to escape her peers' vicious ridicule. A tragic accident sends the town spiraling further into despair. In its wake, Luna and Hunter are forced to work together as the unlikely leaders of a fundraising project, one that attempts to make meaning of the senseless disaster. Many of Edgewater's residents jump on board to help. But some are fiercely opposed to the project, and their defiance becomes sinister. When Hunter and Luna stumble upon dark secrets and are forced to keep them, they realize the terrifying risks they are taking to knit a broken community back together. And just like in those songs, not everything that's broken can be fixed"-- Provided by publisher.
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| YA FIC BUC The inside story / | YA FIC CHB The perks of being a wallflower / | YA FIC DIC Ferris / | YA FIC HEN Made in Maine / | YA FIC HUT Secret soldiers / | YA FIC PAO Murtagh : world of Eragon / | YA FIC WAB Walking in two worlds / |
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"It's as if they are living in a country music song. When the mill closes, Edgewater's economy and hope collapse. Hunter's father starts drinking and becomes an embarrassment and liability to Hunter, who's trying to balance his high-maintenance girlfriend with life on the basketball court. Luna, attending in-person school for the first time in her 17 years, has no friends and hides behind her hoodie to escape her peers' vicious ridicule. A tragic accident sends the town spiraling further into despair. In its wake, Luna and Hunter are forced to work together as the unlikely leaders of a fundraising project, one that attempts to make meaning of the senseless disaster. Many of Edgewater's residents jump on board to help. But some are fiercely opposed to the project, and their defiance becomes sinister. When Hunter and Luna stumble upon dark secrets and are forced to keep them, they realize the terrifying risks they are taking to knit a broken community back together. And just like in those songs, not everything that's broken can be fixed"-- Provided by publisher.
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