| International Standard Book Number |
9780374389499 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
0374389497 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781250907004 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1250907004 (paperback)
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| Personal Name |
Tison, Ari, author.
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| Title Statement |
Saints of the household / Ari Tison.
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| Edition Statement |
First Square Fish edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York [New York] : Square Fish, Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
312 pages ; 21 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Max and Jay have always depended on each other for their survival. Growing up with an abusive father, the two brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to keep their heads down. And create art. But when they hear a girl in trouble in the woods after school, instinct takes over and they intervene, interrupting a fight and beating up their high school's star soccer player. When the authorities arrive and statements are taken, Max and Jay realize they may have misread the situation. Did they? With their college dreams in jeopardy, this one act of violence shakes their idea of who they thought they were--as brothers, as sons, as men. Max and Jay will have to reach back to their Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) roots to find their way forward--and face the truth of what really happened in those woods. Told in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems, Ari Tison's debut novel draws on her Bribri American identity to paint a slow-burning small-town drama about brotherhood, abuse, recovery, and doing the right thing."-- Back cover.
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| Target Audience Note |
Ages 15-18.
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| Target Audience Note |
Grades 10-12.
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| Awards Note |
AmeÌricas Award for Children's & YA Literature, 2024 (Winner)
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| Awards Note |
Pura BelpreÌ Award for Young Adult, 2024 (Winner)
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| Awards Note |
Walter Dean Myers Award for Teen, 2024 (Winner)
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| Awards Note |
William C. Morris Debut Award, 2024 (Finalist)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fathers and sons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Brothers Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Behavior Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Violence Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Costa Rican Americans Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bribri Indians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Indians of Central America Costa Rica Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Indigenous peoples Costa Rica Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Young adult fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Social problem fiction.
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