| Description |
356 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1: In God we trust -- The heartland -- Friends & neighbors -- Education -- Home -- Body parts -- Virginity -- Sharp objects -- Freedom -- 2: Trust no one -- The island -- The program -- Dead babies -- New girl -- Pro-gress -- Rapture -- Agua de coco -- The pastor -- Turkey -- Florida. |
| Summary |
It's the mid-1980s. Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David are sixteen years old and have just moved to rural Indiana, a landscape of cottonwood trees and trailer parks--and a racism neither of them is prepared for. While Julia is white, her close relationship with David, who is black, makes them both outcasts. At home, a distant mother--more involved with her church's missionaries than with her own children--and a violent father only compound their problems. When high-school hormones, bullying, and a deep-seated restlessness prove too much to bear, they are packed off to a Christian boot camp in the Dominican Republic. Surrounded by natural beauty, the Escuela Caribe is governed by a disciplinary regime that demands its teens repent for their sins--which few of them are aware they've committed. How they made it through with heart and soul intact is told here with candor and humor.--From publisher description. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.2 16.0 115354. |
| Subject |
Problem children -- Education -- Dominican Republic.
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Escuela Caribe (Dominican Republic)
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Christian education -- Dominican Republic.
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Escuela Caribe (Dominican Republic) -- Students -- Biography.
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| Local Subject |
Children with behavior problems -- Education -- Dominican Republic.
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| Subject |
Scheeres, Julia -- Childhood and youth.
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| ISBN |
1582433380 hardcover $23.00 |
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