Book
Trowbridge Road
Call Number
- FICTION PIXL TEEN (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2020.
Physical Description
304 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug's connection to the world grows stronger, her mother's grows more distant - even dangerous - pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known.
Subjects
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Family relationships > Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers > Death > Juvenile fiction.
- Grief > Juvenile fiction.
- Fear of contamination > Juvenile fiction.
- Mentally ill mothers > Juvenile fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
- Neighbors > Juvenile fiction.
- Imagination > Juvenile fiction.
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients > Family relationships > Fiction.
- Fathers > Death > Fiction.
- Grief > Fiction.
- Fear of contamination > Fiction.
- Mentally ill mothers > Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
- Friendship > Fiction.
- Neighbors > Fiction.
- Imagination > Fiction.