The strange & beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender / Leslye Walton.
Born with bird wings into a family cursed to be foolish in love, sixteen-year-old Ava delves into her family's past hoping to understand her unusual nature and learn to fit in with her peers, but she is ill-prepared for what she discovers.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780763665661
- ISBN: 0763665665
- Physical Description: 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
Target Audience Note: | 1050L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.8 12 168895. |
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Subject: | Families > History > Fiction. Heredity > Fiction. Fantasy. |
Available copies
- 9 of 11 copies available at Missouri Evergreen.
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- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Camden County Library District - Camdenton | YA FF/FIC WALTON (Text) | 31320003183915 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Cameron Public Library | Y WAL (Text) | 32311111191797 | Youth Fiction | Available | - |
Lebanon-Laclede County Library | YA Walton (Text) | 3803367794 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | YA WALTON (FANTASY) (Text) | 2003584285 | YA Fiction | Available | - |
Livingston - Lillian DesMarias Youth Library | YA F Walton (Text) | 2601686774 | Teen Fiction | Available | - |
Poplar Bluff - Main Library | YA OW WALTON (Text) | 38420101382378 | OTHER WORLDS (YA) | Available | - |
Scenic Regional-Sullivan | YA FIC WAL (Text) | 3004727013 | Young Adult Fiction | In transit | - |
St. Joseph - East Hills Library | Y WAL (Text) | 32002003580758 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Trails Regional-Warrensburg | YA FIC Wal (Text) | 2204158178 | Young Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Webster County-Main Library-Marshfield | YA Walton (Text) | 3990943601 | * Young Adult Fiction | Checked out | 05/13/2024 |
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
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Summary
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
A 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist Magical realism, lyrical prose, and the pain and passion of human love haunt this hypnotic generational saga. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava -- in all other ways a normal girl -- is born with the wings of a bird. In a quest to understand her peculiar disposition and a growing desire to fit in with her peers, sixteen-year old Ava ventures into the wider world, ill-prepared for what she might discover and naive to the twisted motives of others. Others like the pious Nathaniel Sorrows, who mistakes Ava for an angel and whose obsession with her grows until the night of the summer solstice celebration. That night, the skies open up, rain and feathers fill the air, and Ava's quest and her family's saga build to a devastating crescendo. First-time author Leslye Walton has constructed a layered and unforgettable mythology of what it means to be born with hearts that are tragically, exquisitely human.