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Adele Joubert loves being one of the popular girls at Keziah Christian Academy. She knows the upcoming semester at school is going to be great with her best friend Delia at her side. Then Delia dumps her for a new girl with more money, and Adele is forced to share a room with Lottie, the school pariah, who doesn't pray and defies teachers' orders.
But as they share a copy of Jane Eyre, Lottie's gruff exterior and honesty grow on Adele, and Lottie learns to be a little sweeter. Together, they take on bullies and protect each other from the vindictive and prejudiced teachers. Then a boy goes missing on campus and Adele and Lottie must rely on each other to solve the mystery and maybe learn the true meaning of friendship.
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Release date
June 4, 2019 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781984890702
- File size: 233187 KB
- Duration: 08:05:48
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 830
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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Narrator Bahni Turpin delivers this audiobook about a mixed-race teen living in British-controlled Swaziland in the mid-1960s. Though Adele's white father lives with his other family in South Africa, her popularity at her mixed-race boarding school is unquestioned due to the expensive gifts he lavishes upon her. When a new girl with higher social status comes to school, Adele is ousted from the popular group and forced to live with outcast Lottie Diamond. She grows to enjoy Lottie's company and, thus, discovers that the social hierarchies of her world are shallow and inconsequential. Turpin is gifted with accents; most characters have believable Swazi accents, with some American and South African accents voiced just as effectively. S.P. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
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