Where I Belong
Publisher
Clarion Books
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9780544540668
Pages
240 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Eleven-year-old Brendan Doyle doesn't get along with his foster mother, he's failing fifth grade, and he's bullied mercilessly by a band of boys in his class. Then Brendan meets two potential friends--an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school--and he sees that there may be hope for him after all.
Grade Level
6-8
Lexile Measure
640L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Foster care; foster child; foster mother; foster family
Main Character
male child
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
foster mother
Awards
Great Stone Face Book Award, 2015 - 2016
Keywords
daydream; bullying; friendship; nature; books; summer school; middle school; magic; mystical; treehouse; imagination; forests; death; escapism
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Hahn, Mary Downing, "Where I Belong" (2015). Diverse Families. 1838.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/1838