Burning City
Publisher
Random
Publication Year
2003
ISBN
9780375832031
Pages
259 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is struck by first love.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Kinship care; grandparents raising grandchild
Main Character
male teenager
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
grandmother and grandfather
Awards
Choices, 2006 Fiction Young Adult
Senior High Core Collection, Seventeenth Edition, 2007
Senior High School Library Catalog, Sixteenth Edition, 2006 Supplement, 2006
Keywords
grandparents; messengers; love; bad news; bicycle; dreams; New York City, New York
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Dorfman, Ariel and Dorfman, Joaquin, "Burning City" (2003). Diverse Families. 678.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/678