Wave / Diana Farid ; art by Kris Goto ; [Edited by Summer Dawn Laurie].
A coming-of-age novel in verse set in 1980s Southern California, about a Persian American girl who rides the waves, falls, and finds her way back to the shoreThirteen-year-old Ava loves to surf and to sing. Singing and reading Rumi poems settle her mild OCD, and catching waves with her best friend, Phoenix, lets her fit in-her olive skin looks tan, not foreign. But then Ava has to spend the summer before ninth grade volunteering at the hospital, to follow in her single mother's footsteps to become a doctor. And when Phoenix's past lymphoma surges back, not even surfing, singing, or poetry can keep them afloat, threatening Ava's hold on the one place and the one person that make her feel like she belongs. With ocean-like rhythm and lyricism, Wave is about a girl who rides the waves, tumbles, and finds her way back to the shore.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781951836580
- ISBN: 1951836588
- Physical Description: 313 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: Petaluma, California: Cameron + Company, a division of ABRAMS, 2022.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Rumi poems originally published in The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks ( San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995). |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 3.7 3 516395. |
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Subject: | Novels in verse > Fiction. Surfing > Fiction. Frienships > Fiction. Best friends > Fiction. Cancer > Fiction. Belonging (Social psychology) > Fiction. California > Fiction. |
Genre: | Medical fiction. Fiction. Juvenile fiction. Novels in verse. |
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Poplar Bluff - Main Library | YA FIC FARID (Text) | 38420101786404 | FICTION (YA) | Available | - |