What Comes After
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Publication Year
2011
ISBN
9780763642501
Pages
334 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, but the hardest to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Family Member Death; kinship care; family violence; death of a father; aunt raising niece; abusive aunt; abusive cousin; domestic abuse
Main Character
girl
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
aunt
Awards
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, 2013-2014
Nominee
Georgia Peach Teen Readers' Choice Award, 2012-2013
Nominee
The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection
Keywords
child abuse; animals; inheritance; farm; jail; North Carolina; vegetarian
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Watkins, Steve, "What Comes After" (2011). Diverse Families. 1109.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1109