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Burn Baby Burn
Contributor(s): Medina, Meg (Author), Ramirez, Marisol (Read by)

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ISBN: 1511371862     ISBN-13: 9781511371865
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
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Binding Type: Compact Disc - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2016
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | People & Places - United States - Hispanic & Latino
- Young Adult Fiction | Historical - United States - 20th Century
- Young Adult Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 14-17
Grade Level: 9-12
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 6.5" L (0.45 lbs)
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation - Latino
Features: Ikids, Price on Product, Unabridged
 
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Publisher Description:

While violence runs rampant throughout New York, a teenage girl faces danger within her own home in Meg Medina's riveting coming-of-age novel.

Nora Lopez is seventeen during the infamous New York summer of 1977, when the city is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam who shoots young women on the streets. Nora's family life isn't going so well either: her bullying brother, Hector, is growing more threatening by the day, her mother is helpless and falling behind on the rent, and her father calls only on holidays. All Nora wants is to turn eighteen and be on her own. And while there is a cute new guy who started working with her at the deli, is dating even worth the risk when the killer likes picking off couples who stay out too late? Award-winning author Meg Medina transports us to a time when New York seemed balanced on a knife-edge, with tempers and temperatures running high, to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit--and the hardest to accept.


Contributor Bio(s): Medina, Meg: - Meg Medina, named one of CNN's Ten Visionary Women, is the author of the young adult novel Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, which received a Pura Belpre Award in 2014. She is also the author of the novel The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind and the picture books Mango, Abuela, and Me and Tia Isa Wants a Car, for which she won an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Meg Medina was raised in Queens, New York, where she lived in 1977, one of the worst years in the city's history. About Burn Baby Burn, she says, "While telling Nora's story, I was writing about violence at the tipping point, both in a city and in a family. Young people then and now sometimes have to grow up against a backdrop of unspeakable events. Their fight for hope, respect, and happiness always amazes me." She lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family.
 
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