![]() ![]() ![]() Only Parker's little sister Danielle seems to notice that he's withering away. Family life is less than idyllic, with her mother away in Israel and her father working late into the night as a cab driver. But the thunder of praise surrounding Parker and his accomplishments reduces her voice to broken poetry: Roxanne (Ravit) Ben-Ari is an Israeli-American girl growing up in 1980s New York City. ![]() And he certainly can't tell Julianne, the "vision of hotness" he so desperately wants to love. He can't tell his hired college consultant. He can't tell his achievement-obsessed father. The countdown to HYP (Harvard, Yale, Princeton) has begun, and he will stay focused. ![]() A dropped extracurricular, a C on a calc quiz, a non-Jewish shiksa girlfriend-one misstep, and his meticulously constructed life splinters and collapses. These trees fall unexpectedly during a storm."įor high school senior Parker Rabinowitz, anything less than success is a failure. "Sometimes trees can look healthy on the outside, but actually be dying inside. 7 THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS by John Boyne RELEASE DATE: Sept. Nivola bookshelf Certain to provoke controversy and difficult to see as a book for children, who could easily miss the painful point. A 2009 Sydney Taylor Award Notable Books for Teens winner Bronze Medal winner for the Young Adult Fiction category of ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards NOTHING by Robin Friedman BOOK REVIEW THE SILENT WITNESS by Robin Friedman & illustrated by Claire A. ![]()
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