| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
248 pages ; 22 cm |
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Age group Early Adolescents |
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Teenagers |
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age Children |
| Contents |
Moth egg: -- Call me (Moth) -- Almost summer (again) -- Now I live a secondhand life -- When I lived in New York City -- (Aunt Jack's) list of rules -- (Moth's) list of rules -- Virginia : almost-last bus ride of junior year -- Boy with long black hair shows up in homeroom -- "Shared" locker rules -- Final pep rally : dance team -- Transverse orientation -- Bus ride home -- Same stop (Sani lights a cigarette) -- Moths -- I dream of my grandfather (rootworker) -- Morning rituals (last day of school) -- Final drama class : stories -- Girl who lived -- Summer song -- Sani singing in the empty room -- I find Sani by the vending machines -- Note Sani slips into my hand -- Egg -- [Texts between me and Sani] -- I used to dance -- If I went to therapy, I think it would go like this -- Reasons I hate summer -- Black witch moth -- Aunt Jack is leaving for the summer -- Goodbye note stuck to the fridge -- Dust #1 -- Text I think about sending Sani -- Instagram party post -- Instagram post results -- Through the window -- At least the ancestors were hungry -- Text Sani sends when he's gone in the morning -- I'll do your bidding -- Summer storm -- Run away with me, please -- Wormwood & ginger root -- Caterpillar: -- Up & leave -- Sani's Jeep Wrangler -- Caterpillar -- Lyrics & stories -- Sani needs to eat -- Route -- Places we decide to stop -- Monticello Plantation, Charlottesville, Virginia -- Dust #2 -- Thomas Jefferson had a blue beard -- |
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Things I notice about Sani while he sings "Strange fruit" by Billie Holiday -- Things my grandfather taught me about the South -- Things Sani knows about the South -- Natural bridge, Virginia -- Interstate 40 -- Motel #1 -- Old South : practice apocalypse -- We lie like twin spirits -- Creation according to Sani : the four worlds -- We sleep -- On our way to North Carolina -- Ghost town in the sky, Maggie Valley, North Carolina -- Holding my breath -- Sunrise Inn Hotel -- Billy Tripp's mindfield, Brownsville, Tennessee -- Home -- Bluebird Cafe, Nashville, Tennessee -- Dust #3 -- Hotel whatever -- Willow : Nashville cemetery -- Bruises -- Hotel guitar lessons -- Time is nothing but an illusion -- Fort Smith National Historic Site, Arkansas -- Time travel hotel -- Hotel morning rituals (with Sani) -- Pinnacle Mountain State Park, Arkansas -- It feels like the second world -- Storytelling -- Car ride : storytelling -- Stafford Air & Space Museum, Weatherford, Oklahoma -- Lighthouse, Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas -- Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo, Texas -- Dram love : motel -- Luna moth -- Navajo Nation, Four Corners, New Mexico -- Cocoon: -- Four Corners : Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico & Utah -- Cocoon -- We fold down the seats & sleep in the back of the jeep -- I also dream -- Car ride to Window Rock -- Kissing Sani (feels like...) -- Window Rock -- Almost at Sani's house & moths pepper the windshield -- Sani's home -- How to make pb&j according to Sani -- Sani's room -- |
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"Samson," a song by Regina Spektor -- Sani's dad is a medicine man -- Sani's nightmares -- Sani's dad refills his mystery pills -- Health system -- We have cocooned here -- Coyote story : first scolder -- Blood moon in New Mexico -- Fireside chat -- Guitar & voice & dance -- Dancing -- When the song is over -- Puzzle in the sky -- Sani's note -- Disassemble -- Alone -- Note left in Sani's car : "All my life," a song by Texada -- How our world was created -- But I come back -- Our fourth world -- Sani : people stay away -- I still don't know what the (mystery) pills are for -- Sani's dad invites us to dinner -- We have a moment of silence -- Sketch me -- Sani's dad is a medicine man whose father knew a hoodoo man -- Grandfather left a letter for me -- Root of the root -- Hummingbird moth -- & open -- & open & open -- & open & open & open -- Truth -- Moth: -- This morning... -- I woke up dead -- Hoodoo fable -- Sphinx moth -- Truth : accident -- Sani finds (ghost me) -- Drive to the crossroads -- (Moth) natural history -- Grandfather at the crossroads -- Missing -- There is a whole lot of heaven -- Sani : goodbye note -- Ten years later : sold out, Madison Square Garden. -- Notes -- Moth & Sani's road trip playlist -- Acknowledgments. |
| Summary |
Debut YA novel-in-verse by Amber McBride about Moth, who lost her family in an accident, and Sani, who is battling ongoing depression, take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors, which helps them move forward in surprising, powerful and unforgettable ways. |
| Audience |
Grades 10-12. |
| Awards |
John Steptoe Award for New Talent, author, 2022. |
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William C. Morris YA Debut Award, 2022. |
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National Book Awards Finalist for Young People's Literature Award, 2021. |
| Subject |
Teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.
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Teenagers. |
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Teenagers -- Poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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| Subject |
Grief -- Juvenile fiction.
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Grief. |
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Grief -- Poetry.
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Depression in adolescence -- Juvenile fiction.
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Depression in adolescence. |
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Depression in adolescence -- Poetry.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) |
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Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Poetry.
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Automobile travel -- Juvenile fiction.
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Automobile travel. |
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Automobile travel -- Poetry.
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First loves -- Juvenile fiction.
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First loves. |
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First loves -- Poetry.
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Young adult fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Novels in verse.
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Road fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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Young adult works.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Moth (me) |
| ISBN |
9781250780362 hardcover |
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1250780365 hardcover |
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