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Chill Wind

Chill Wind - Paperback

by Janet McDonald
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Availability:In StockContributor:Janet McDonaldSeries:Hillbrook Houses #2Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2006-01-24Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)ISBN-13:9780374411831ISBN-10:374411832UPC:9780374411831Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, Girls & Women, Social ThemesBook Topic:United States, Poverty & HomelessnessSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC89G2EBY4

Chill Wind is the winner of the Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe New Talent Award.

A tough and funny project girl manages to make that chill wind blow away in Janet McDonald's sequel to Spellbound.

The good life, according to Aisha Ingram, is easy. It's hanging with friends, dancing, listening to music, whatever . . . but it doesn't include worrying about the future. Chilling out is her mantra until she receives a sixty-day termination-of-welfare-benefits notice. Without her monthly food stamps and assistance checks and with no help from the father of her two children, Aisha's life threatens to become a little too "chilly."

The clock is ticking and she doesn't have many options, but one thing she knows for sure: workfare is not for her. There's no way she's going to scrub subway cars or sweep city sidewalks. Aisha tries to come up with other ways to get money, but things don't look good. Soon another notice comes: only thirty days left. Then she sees an ad on TV for BIGMODELS, and she figures she might as well check out the agency. After all, she is pretty enough. But just when it looks like Aisha's problems might be solved, things grow crazy again.

In Aisha, Janet McDonald has created a larger-than-life heroine who finds and succeeds at what is right for her.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)ISBN-13:9780374411831ISBN-10:374411832UPC:9780374411831Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, Girls & Women, Social ThemesBook Topic:United States, Poverty & HomelessnessSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SC89G2EBY4

Janet McDonald (1953-2007) is the author of the adult memoir Project Girl. She is the author of three books set in the Brooklyn projects: Chill Wind, for which she received the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent; Spellbound, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults; and Twists and Turns, an ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and lived in Paris, France.


Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)

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