If I Ever Get Out of Here: A Novel with Paintings

If I Ever Get Out of Here: A Novel with PaintingsNow in paperback: The debut novel Laurie Halse Anderson praised for fearlessly laying down the truth about friendship, poverty, and the joys of rock 'n' roll. Lewis Shoe Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to

Now in paperback: The debut novel Laurie Halse Anderson praised for fearlessly laying down the truth about friendship, poverty, and the joys of rock 'n' roll.
Lewis Shoe Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white people being nice to him -- people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family's poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan's side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis's home -- will he still be his friend?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books
Published: 04/28/2015
ISBN: 9780545417310
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.80d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 159824 / If I Ever Get Out of Here
Reading Level: 5.6 / Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus / Point Value: 16