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Publication
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2017), 336 pages
Description
While serving a community service sentence for young offenders, a Romanian immigrant boy and a troubled British girl fall in love.
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LibraryThing member SueS7
Pretty grim story that left me feeling depressed.
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A story, told in free-verse, about two teens who meet in a program for young offenders, both of them there for petty shoplifting. Nicu is a Roma (gypsy) from Romania. His family is in North London to earn money for his arranged marriage, to happen in several months. He is only 15, and even though
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he knows it is the culture of his people, he does not want to get married. Jess lives with her mother and her violent stepfather. Tormented, she spends as much time as possible out of the house, and lives in fear when she is home. In a short time, the two become friends and start to rely on each other, but Jess's former friends aren't having Nicu as part of their life. Show Less
Awards
Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing (Nominee — 2018)
Independent Booksellers' Book Prize (Shortlist — Children's — 2018)
UKLA Book Award (Shortlist — 2018)
Sheffield Children's Book Award (Winner — 2018)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
336 p.; 11.02 inches
ISBN
1408878852 / 9781408878859
Other editions
We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan (Ebook)
We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan (Ebook)
We Come Apart by Sarah Crossan (Paperback)
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