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When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune

Lori Aurelia Williams

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#7839 of 8,085 books · #794 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature (2000).

When Kambia Elaine Flew in from Neptune was an ALA Best Book for Young Adults 2001. Shayla Dubois lives in a Houston neighborhood known as the Bottom, where life is colorful but never easy. She wants only two things out of life: to become a writer and to have a nice, peaceful home. Instead, her life has been turned upside down. Shayla's mama kicked her sister, Tia, out of the house for messing around with an older guy. And Shayla's father has been spending a lot of time at the house with mama. And there's her strange new neighbor, Kambia Elaine, who tells the most fantastic stories. Then Shayla begins to suspect that something is wrong.

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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
ISBN-13
9780689845932
Topics
Coming of ageChild abuseFamily struggles

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