Rubber Houses
2007
First Published
3.89
Average Rating
148
Number of Pages
Typical teenager Kit lives a happy, normal life of friends,boys, and loving family. She and her younger brother, Buddy, are incredibly close despite their eight-year age difference, bonded by a shared love of baseball and math. But when Buddy is taken suddenly by cancer, Kit and herparents struggle to survive. Told in spare, lyrical verse, Rubber Houses is a powerful novel that perfectly captures the intense and excruciating pain of the loss of a loved one, and the slow but gradual hope of living again and finding one's way back home.
Avg Rating
3.89
Number of Ratings
200
5 STARS
35%
4 STARS
31%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
6%
1 STARS
3%
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