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My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece
By PITCHER, Annabel
- ISBN
- 978-0-316-17690-3 978-0-316-20185-8
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Starred Review on August 1, 2012 | Grades 5-up
Gr 8 Up—Jamie, who is about to celebrate his tenth birthday, barely remembers his sister who was killed in a terrorist attack five years earlier. His mother has recently abandoned him and his 15-year-old sister, Jasmine. Paralyzed by grief, his father has developed a rabid hatred of Muslims, become an alcoholic, and neglects his two surviving children. Jamie's parents have tried to force him to demonstrate a grief that he doesn't feel. After putting on a Spider-Man shirt he receives as a birthday p...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Five years after his older sister is killed in a London terrorist bombing, ten-year-old Jamie's dad moves the broken family to the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
