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The Grief Keeper

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The Grief KeeperThis stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom. Seventeen year old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid. When she pictured an American life for herself, she dreamed of a life like Aimee and Amber's, the title characters of her favorite American TV

This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.

Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid. When she pictured an American life for herself, she dreamed of a life like Aimee and Amber's, the title characters of her favorite American TV show. She never pictured fleeing her home in El Salvador under threat of death and stealing across the US border as "an illegal," but after her brother is murdered and her younger sister, Gabi's, life is also placed in equal jeopardy, she has no choice, especially because she knows everything is her fault. If she had never fallen for the charms of a beautiful girl named Liliana, Pablo might still be alive, her mother wouldn't be in hiding and she and Gabi wouldn't have been caught crossing the border.

But they have been caught and their asylum request will most certainly be denied. With truly no options remaining, Marisol jumps at an unusual opportunity to stay in the United States. She's asked to become a grief keeper, taking the grief of another into her own body to save a life. It's a risky, experimental study, but if it means Marisol can keep her sister safe, she will risk anything. She just never imagined one of the risks would be falling in love, a love that may even be powerful enough to finally help her face her own crushing grief.

The Grief Keeper is a tender tale that explores the heartbreak and consequences of when both love and human beings are branded illegal.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/11/2019
ISBN: 9780525514022
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 1.20d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2019
Publishers Weekly 04/29/2019
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 06/01/2019
School Library Journal 06/01/2019 pg. 85
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2019 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Booklist 06/01/2019 pg. 84
Shelf Awareness 07/09/2019

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 505091 / Grief Keeper
Reading Level: 4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 11
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