New boy : a novel
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- ISBN: 9780345809926 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
204 pages ; 21 cm.
regular print
print - Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
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General Note: | CatMonthString:august.17 Novel. |
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Subject: | Shakespeare, William -- 1564-1616 -- Adaptations African American boys -- Fiction Schools -- Fiction Friendship -- Fiction Bullying -- Fiction Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction |
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Summary:
Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day--so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players--teachers and pupils alike--will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard, where kids fall in and out of love with each other before lunchtime, and practise a casual racism picked up from their parents and teachers. Taking us vividly into the lives and emotions of four eleven-year-olds--Osei, Dee, Ian and his reluctant "girlfriend" Mimi--Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart by jealousy, bullying and betrayal will leave you reeling.