Clap When You Land

The stunning New York Times bestselling novel from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of THE POET X. 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Winner of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND.Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people...In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash.Separated by distance - and Papi's secrets - the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered.And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.In a dual narrative novel in verse that brims with both grief and love, award-winning and bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.

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Eloquent, moving and suspenseful The Sunday Times, Book of the Week

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Acevedo
• Publisher: Hot Key Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 19
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781471409127
• ISBN: 978-1-4714-0912-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 193 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Young people's books from 12 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Siblings, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Parents, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Blended Families