Book
5 of 5 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Teen Collection (2 copies)
- EASTWOOD: Teen Collection
- OSHTEMO: Teen Collection
- WASHINGTON SQUARE: Teen Collection
The silence that binds us
Call Number
- FICTION HO TEEN (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Physical Description
437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Audience
Grades 10-12. HarperTeen.
Summary
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
Subjects
- Suicide > Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings > Juvenile fiction
- Racism > Juvenile fiction.
- Chinese Americans > Juvenile fiction.
- Asian Americans > Juvenile fiction.
- Families > California > Juvenile fiction.
- High schools > Juvenile fiction.
- Schools > Juvenile fiction.
- Suicide > Fiction.
- Siblings > Fiction
- Racism > Fiction.
- Chinese Americans > Fiction.
- Asian Americans > Fiction.
- Family life > California > Fiction.
- High schools > Fiction.
- Schools > Fiction.