If I Ever Get Out of Here
Scholastic Inc. · Print & ebook · April 28, 2015
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- Who it’s for
- A Beatles-loving friendship brings humor and warmth to a story shaped by poverty and prejudice.
- Themes
- Friendship, Family poverty, Shared love of music
- Genres
- Native American YA, Friendship for Teens, Homelessness & Poverty for Teens
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Now in paperback: The debut novel Laurie Halse Anderson praised for "fearlessly laying down the truth" about friendship, poverty, and the joys of rock 'n' roll. Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof.
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What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend?
Music and Friendship
A Beatles-loving friendship brings humor and warmth to a story shaped by poverty and prejudice.
Come here for
- The easy pull of shared music and joking friendship
- A clear-eyed look at poverty and being singled out
Expect
- Warmth alongside difficult truths
- A sustained coming-of-age story in 1975
Where it sits
| Native American YA | 84% |
|---|---|
| Homelessness & Poverty for Teens | 42% |
| Friendship for Teens | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Native American YA
- Bullying for Teens
- Friendship for Teens
- Authors
- Eric Gansworth
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc.
- Published
- April 28, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Friendship · Family poverty · Shared love of music
- Reading lane
- Native American YA