A Duet for Home
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · May 16, 2023
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- Who it’s for
- Two sixth graders’ perspectives bring friendship, music, and the meaning of home into focus.
- Themes
- Friendship, Healing, Housing insecurity
- Genres
- Homelessness & Poverty, Friendship, Activism & Social Justice
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From the New York Times best-selling creator of the Vanderbeekers series comes a triumphant tale of friendship, healing, and the power of believing in ourselves, told from the perspectives of two biracial sixth graders living in a homeless shelter. At first, June can’t believe it: their new home is a homeless shelter? When she’s told she can’t bring her cherished viola inside, she’s convinced the worst luck in the world landed her at Huey House.
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But Tyrell has lived at Huey House for three years, and he knows all the good things about it: friendship, hot meals, and the music from next door drifting through the windows. With his help, June begins to see things differently. Just as she’s starting to understand how Huey House can be a home, a new government policy threatens all the residents. Can June and Tyrell work together to find a way to save Huey House as they know it?
Finding Home
Two sixth graders’ perspectives bring friendship, music, and the meaning of home into focus.
Come here for
- A child-centered story about life in a homeless shelter
- Friendship and music amid uncertainty
Expect
- Two perspectives from biracial sixth graders
- A heartfelt narrative of healing and standing together
Where it sits
| Homelessness & Poverty | 98% |
|---|---|
| Friendship | 84% |
| Activism & Social Justice | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Bird Stories
- Baby Animals
- Art & Architecture
- New Baby Stories
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- Parent-Child Stories
- Sibling Stories
- Loss & Grief
- Friendship
- Authors
- Karina Yan Glaser
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- May 16, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Friendship · Healing · Housing insecurity
- Reading lane
- Bird Stories