Vienna, a mixed-race teen and her mother experience racism and domestic violence while living with her step-father. They try to escape the situation by moving to a big city where they begin to start new lives. But when her step-father shows up at her new high school's grad party, Vienna has to find a way to keep herself, her mother, and her friends safe. This book illustrates the very real circumstances women and children victims of domestic abuse face and one family's struggle to escape a violent situation.
year: 2018
call number/section: 1000
subjects: high schools, fiction, metis, moving, household, stepfathers, teenage girls, child abuse, mothers and daughters, racism, teenagers, mother-daughter relationship, moving, young adult fiction
Editions
Spafford-Fitz, Karen
Lorimer Children & Teens (2018)
Vienna, a mixed-race teen and her mother experience racism and domestic violence while living with her step-father. They try to escape the situation by moving to a big city where they begin to start new lives. But when her step-father shows up at her new high school's grad party, Vienna has to find a way to keep herself, her mother, and her friends safe. This book illustrates the very real circumstances women and children victims of domestic abuse face and one family's struggle to escape a violent situation.
Schools: 4
Spafford-Fitz, Karen
To avoid the violence of her stepfather, Vienna Fleury and her mother run away to a new city with no money and no where to go. As they begin to get their life back, Vienna enrolls in a new high school to finish her senior year. She even joins the grad committee. But Duncan finds Vienna and demands to know where her mother is.
Schools: 1