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Feels Like Home
The brother of Michelle "Mickey" Owens returns six years after a tragedy which tore both them and their small Texas town apart.
(Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2007)
Nominee, 2008-2009 Texas Lone Star Reading List
"A sweet funny tear-jerker."
- Sweet 16
"An intense story about loss and pain."
-KLIATT
"winning mix of tragedy, romance and chemistry"
-Publishers Weekly
"Charlton-Trujillo's novel evokes the uneasy relationships between Anglos and Latinos in South Texas and well describes the sometimes suffocating familiarity that small-town residents have with each other. This tension, depicted as a key part of the setting is effectively mirrored in the familial tension that Danny's arrival brings."
- Voya
" ...realistic dialogue and unexpected metaphors help to enliven a narrative that builds suspense as Mickey gradually goes back to the crucial events that sent Danny into oblivion six years earlier. An extra bonus are the multiple references to The Outsiders, as the ragged copy that Danny and Mickey shared years earlier becomes a referee at the heart of their differences."
- Kirkus
"...an intense story about loss and pain. Readers will see in her what it takes to fight for truth in the midst of great emotional upheaveal."
- Janis Flint-Ferguson, Gordon College
"a heartbreaking but hopeful novel.... it delves bravely into the dark underbelly of people’s lives and somehow manages to make it shine....The people in the book are so real and so well defined that by the end of the book, you know them and you care. You really care what’s going to happen to them all."
- Gina MarySol Ruiz
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