Because It Is My Blood

Author:   Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Volume:   2
ISBN:  

9780374380748


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   18 September 2012
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in.- Michael Corleone, The Godfather Since her release from Liberty Children's Facility, Anya Balanchine is determined to follow the straight and narrow. Unfortunately, her criminal record is making it hard for her to do that. No high school wants her with a gun possession charge on her rap sheet. Plus, all the people in her life have moved on: Natty has skipped two grades at Holy Trinity, Scarlet and Gable seem closer than ever, and even Win is in a new relationship.But when old friends return demanding that certain debts be paid, Anya is thrown right back into the criminal world that she had been determined to escape. It's a journey that will take her across the ocean and straight into the heart of the birthplace of chocolate where her resolve--and her heart--will be tested as never before. Because It Is My Blood is the second novel in Gabrielle Zevin's Birthright series.

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Author:   Gabrielle Zevin
Publisher:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Imprint:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
Volume:   2
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780374380748


ISBN 10:   0374380740
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   18 September 2012
Recommended Age:   From 12 to 18 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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An engaging heroine, lots of humor...in this Godfather for teens. B+ --EW.com Readers who enjoy mob stories and visions of future societies will be pleased. As in the first book, Zevin provokes thought about what we make illegal and why. --School Library Journal The idea of a world in which chocolate, coffee, and other stimulants have been outlawed is alluring, and Anya is a strong, smart protagonist. Fans will want to find out what happens to her. --VOYA Discerning characters' true motives will keep readers guessing, and the conflicting forces within Anya add an extra dimension of drama to this action-packed sequel. --Publishers Weekly This sequel to All These Things I've Done (2011) paints on such a broad canvas that readers will be amazed at Zevin's management abilities...Zevin's strong suit is characterization, and it shines here. Whatever the nefarious plot, no one becomes a cartoon character--like chocolates, each is delicious in his or her own right. --Booklist Fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. --Kirkus Reviews Anya's flaws are what make her a complicated, thoroughly human character, one whom readers will enjoy continuing to try to understand...Readers will love her, flawed as she is. --Teenreads.com


An engaging heroine, lots of humor...in this Godfather for teens. B+ --EW.com Readers who enjoy mob stories and visions of future societies will be pleased. As in the first book, Zevin provokes thought about what we make illegal and why. --School Library Journal The idea of a world in which chocolate, coffee, and other stimulants have been outlawed is alluring, and Anya is a strong, smart protagonist. Fans will want to find out what happens to her. --VOYA Discerning characters' true motives will keep readers guessing, and the conflicting forces within Anya add an extra dimension of drama to this action-packed sequel. --Publishers Weekly This sequel to All These Things I've Done (2011) paints on such a broad canvas that readers will be amazed at Zevin's management abilities...Zevin's strong suit is characterization, and it shines here. Whatever the nefarious plot, no one becomes a cartoon character--like chocolates, each is delicious in his or her own right. --Booklist Fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. --Kirkus Reviews Anya's flaws are what make her a complicated, thoroughly human character, one whom readers will enjoy continuing to try to understand...Readers will love her, flawed as she is. --Teenreads.com


<p>. ..fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. -- Kirkus


<p>. ..alluring, and Anya is a strong, smart protagonist. -- VOYA <p> <p>. ..fans of the first will enjoy the author's inventive combination of chocolate, crime and politics, as well as finding out Anya's post-prison fate. -- Kirkus


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Gabrielle Zevin is the author of Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, and All These Things I've Done. Of her writing, The New York Times Book Review said, Zevin's touch is marvelously light even as she considers profundities. She lives in New York City.

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