The land of forgotten girls

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Author:

Summary:

Abandoned by their father and living in poverty with their heartless stepmother in Louisiana, two sisters from the Philippines, twelve-year-old Sol and six-year-old Ming, learn the true meaning of family.

General Note:

Novel.

Physical Description:

299 pages ; 22 cm

Subject Term:

Dysfunctional families -- Juvenile fiction.

Immigrants -- Juvenile fiction.

Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.

Stepmothers -- Juvenile fiction.

Filipino Americans -- Juvenile fiction.

Geographic Term:

Louisiana -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Publication Date:

2016

ISBN:

9780062238641

Publication Information:

New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]

Call Number:

J KELLY

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Soledad has always been able to escape into the stories she creates. Just like her mother always could. And Soledad has needed that escape more than ever in the five years since her mother and sister died and her father moved Sol and her youngest sister from the Philippines to Louisiana. Then he left, and all Sol and Ming have now is their evil stepmother, Vea. Sol has protected Ming all this time, but then Ming begins to believe that Auntie Jove--their mythical, world-traveling aunt--is really going to come rescue them. Have Sol's stories done more harm than good Can she protect Ming from this impossible hope Erin Entrada Kelly writes with grace, imagination, and deepest heart about the meaning of family and about finding hope in the hardest circumstances.

Reviews (2)

School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-6-After their mother dies, Soledad and Ming's father brings his daughters and his new wife from the Philippines to the United States-and soon abandons them. Their stepmother, Vea, is angry and abusive, and Soledad spins stories for her younger sister to help them both survive. Themes of resilience, sisterhood, and the power of the imagination are interwoven in this tender, ultimately hopeful tale. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Publisher's Weekly Review

Kelly (Blackbird Fly) balances the bleak and the beautiful in a novel about the multilayered bond between sisters. Twelve-year-old narrator Sol and her six-year-old sister, Ming, live in a depressing, rat-infested apartment building with their cruel stepmother, Vea, who taps cigarette ashes into the carpet and locks them in the closet when they misbehave. Soon after the girls' mother and younger sister Amelia died, their father married Vea and moved all of them from the Philippines to Louisiana, only to abandon them and return home. In a supernatural thread woven into the story, Sol converses with the ghost of Amelia, who offers advice and helps Sol parse what is true and what is real. Fairy-tale fantasies and extensions of the tales their mother once told Sol contrast with her day-to-day life with her best friend Manny and a well-developed cast that includes an artistically inclined junkyard owner and a kind neighbor. While the story is resolved a bit tidily, Kelly's strong heroine offers hope in the face of loss. Ages 8-12. Agent: Sara Crowe, Harvey Klinger. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.