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The main character, gordie jessup, is a 16 year old highschool student that does normal teenager stuff such as playing a guitar and working a part time job. His eighteenyearold brother chases twoyear addiction. Holubitsky wisely gives us a glimpse of normality before thrusting us headlong into hell. Katherine holubitskys first novel, alone at ninety foot, orca book publishers, won the cla book of the year for young adults and the iode violet downey book award. With an overdrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for ataglance information about availability. When katherine holubitskys first published novel won the canadian library associations 1999 young adult book award, perhaps no one was more surprised than the author herself. Katherine holubitsky 1955 biography personal, addresses. The book, alone at ninety foot, started out as a short story holubitsky wrote in her free time while working in a city highschool library in western canada. Katherine holubitsky gord is powerless to stop his brothers drug addiction from destroying his family.
Sixteenyearold gordie jessup is a good kid but hes living a nightmare. The mountain that walked by katherine holubitsky nook. Some of the published credits of katherine holubitsky include tweaked, the big snapper orca young readers, the mountain that walked. Chase is a 16 year old boy just like any other boy normal but hi s 18 year old brother is a serious meth addict. Katherine holubitsky s first novel, alone at ninety foot, orca book publishers, won the cla book of the year for young adults and the iode violet downey book award. These books are gritty and dont always have happy endings. And just when gordie thinks he can no longer stand the manipulating, the lying and the stealing, things get even worse. Tweaked katherine holubitsky mcnally robinson booksellers. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read tweaked. Katherine holubitskys first novel, alone at ninety foot, orca, won the cla book of the year for young adults and the iode violet downey book award. Tweaked book columbus metropolitan library bibliocommons. Sixteenyearold gordie jessup is a g o o d kid but hes living a nightmare. After all, it frequently allows me a few hours of assured reading, especially while i wait for hours in ferry lineups.
Orca book pubjishers gratefully acknowledges the support for its publishing programs. Katherine holubitsky is a published author of childrens books and young adult books. Katherine holubitsky author katherine holubitsky s first novel, alone at ninety foot, orca book publishers, won the cla book of the year for young adults and the iode violet downey book award. Alone at 90 foot pdf adobe drm can be read on any device that can open pdf adobe drm files. Tweaked is a fictitious novel published by orca book publishers. She has also written last summer in agatha, the hippie house and the mountain th. Click to read more about tweaked by katherine holubitsky. Read tweaked online by katherine holubitsky books free 30. Chase, gordies brother, is wrecked by his addiction and so is the entire family.
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Perhaps tweaked might stand up as a teachable book, but as literature its tone is moralizing and. Charlie has been treated poorly by the two brothers, but he has endured. S a gordie jessup appears to be a happy, normal teen. Alone at 90 foot isbn 9781551432045 pdf epub katherine. Katherine holubitsky books biography and list of works. Katherine holubitsky sixteenyearold gordie jessup is a good kid but hes living a nightmare. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. Gordie and his older brother chase are every kid, building forts in the ravine. The mountain that walked by katherine holubitsky nook book. Read tweaked by katherine holubitsky for free with a 30 day free trial. She has also written last summer in agatha, the hippie house and the mountain that walked, all published by orca. She had warned me that tweaked, by katherine holubitsky, was not an easy read and she was right. Readers will sympathize with gordie and marvel that he can hold on to his own values as he watches his brother selfdestruct.
Read tweaked by katherine holubitsky available from rakuten kobo. She has also written the hippie house, the mountain that walked and last summer in agatha, all published by orca. Katherine holubitskys first novel, alone at ninety foot orca, won the cla book of the year for young adults. Electronic books fiction juvenile works juvenile fiction romans, nouvelles, etc. Holubitdkys tweaked presents the story of gordie and his methaddicted brother. So, yesterday on my way back to victoria after a long weekend in vanouver, i finished another of the young adult books my publisher sales rep. Tweaked is a book showing the real life dangers of drugs, specifically meth.
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