Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has acquired brain injury, the result of an assault, and her words come out slow and slurred. But when she writes, heartwords fly from her pen. She writes poems to express the words she can&#...

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Main Author:	Millard, Glenda (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Sydney ; Melbourne ; Auckland ; London Allen & Unwin Children 2016
Edition:	First published
Subjects:	Teenagers / Juvenile fiction Interpersonal relations / Juvenile fiction Children's, Teenage & educational Interpersonal relations Teenagers Young adult fiction Bildungsromans Teenagers - Fiction Coming of age - Fiction Interpersonal relations - Fiction Apraxie Liebe Außenseiter Trauma Einsamkeit Jugendbuch
Summary:	Alice is fifteen, with hair as red as fire and skin as pale as bone, but something inside her is broken. She has acquired brain injury, the result of an assault, and her words come out slow and slurred. But when she writes, heartwords fly from her pen. She writes poems to express the words she can't say and leaves them in unexpected places around the town. Manny was once a child soldier. He is sixteen and has lost all his family. He appears to be adapting to his new life in this country, where there is comfort and safety, but at night he runs, barefoot, to escape the memory of his past. When he first sees Alice, she is sitting on the rusty roof of her river-house, looking like a carving on an old-fashioned ship sailing through the stars. - A powerful, captivating story about Alice, who is reaching out to express herself through her beautiful-broken words, and Manny who is running to escape his past. When they meet they find the tender beginnings of love and healing
Physical Description:	266 pages
ISBN:	9781743315897 1743315899