Title
The Game of Love and Death
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Publication Year
2015
ISBN
9780545668347
Pages
329 pages
Genre
historical
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
Grade Level
9-12
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Racial Diversity; Adoption; Interracial; adopted child; adoptive family; interracial relationship
Main Character
boy and girl
Race/Ethnicities
African American / White
Family Formation
multiple
Awards
Best of the Best Books, 2015 Booklist Top 10 Arts Books for Youth, 2015 Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book, 2015 YALSA Teens' Top Ten, 2016 Cybils Awards, 2015, Nominee, Young adult(Speculative Fiction) Kirkus Prize, 2015, Finalist, Magical Realism Pacific Northwest Book Award, 2016, Winner, Children's Book
Keywords
teenage boys; teenage girls; race relations; love; death; college; pilot; singing; Great Depression
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Brockenbrough, Martha, "The Game of Love and Death" (2015). DIVerse Families. 540.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/540