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To a darker shore / Leanne Schwartz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salem, MA : Page Street YA, 2024.Description: 392 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781645678403
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.1.S336582 To 2024
Summary: To keep the devil at bay, her beauty-obsessed kingdom sacrifices unattractive children to hell's entrance every season, prompting plain, poor, plus-sized, autistic Alesta to travel to the very depths of hell to avenge her best friend's death and stop the sacrifices forever.
Item type: Book List(s) this item appears in: Autism | New Novels
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library FIC/SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844500061549

"Light gore and body horror. Some bullying/sizeist body talk, and conflict with a parent over masking autism (internalized but ultimately rejected by the main characters). Societal/parental homophobia (with happy outcomes). Claustrophobic panic attacks. Implied suicidal ideation. Illness, loss, grief"--Manuscript content warnings.

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To keep the devil at bay, her beauty-obsessed kingdom sacrifices unattractive children to hell's entrance every season, prompting plain, poor, plus-sized, autistic Alesta to travel to the very depths of hell to avenge her best friend's death and stop the sacrifices forever.

Young Adult Follett School Solutions.

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