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If I Ever Get Out of Here Hardcover - 2013

by Eric Gansworth

From the acclaimed author of the adult bestsellers "Mending Skins" and "Smoke Dancing" comes his YA debutNa frank and funny portrait of the transformative friendship between a Native American boy and an Air Force kid.


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"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name.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? Acclaimed adult author Eric Gansworth makes his YA debut with this wry and powerful novel about friendship, memory, and the joy of rock 'n' roll.

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  • Title If I Ever Get Out of Here
  • Author Eric Gansworth
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Arthur A. Levine Books, New York
  • Date 2013-07-30
  • ISBN 9780545417303 / 0545417309
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 12 to 15 years
  • Grade levels 7 - 10
  • Reading level 870
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Religious Orientation: Native American
    • Topical: Friendship
  • Library of Congress subjects Identity, Identity (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012030553
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 09/01/2013, Page 103
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 09/01/2013, Page 0
  • Horn Book Magazine, 09/01/2013, Page 97
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2014, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2013, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/01/2013, Page 0
  • School Library Journal, 09/01/2013, Page 142
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 10/01/2013, Page 0

About the author

Eric Gansworth is Lowery Writer-in-Residence and Professor of English at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, and was recently NEH Distinguished Visiting Professor at Colgate University. An enrolled Onondaga, he was born and raised at the Tuscarora Indian Nation, just outside Niagara Falls, New York. His debut novel for young readers, If I Ever Get Out of Here, was a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick and an American Indian Library Association Young Adult Honor selection, and he is the author of numerous acclaimed books for adults. Eric is also a visual artist, generally incorporating paintings as integral elements into his written work. His work has been widely shown and anthologized and has appeared in Iroquois Art: Power and History, The Kenyon Review, and Shenandoah, among other places, and he was recently selected for inclusion in Lit City, a Just Buffalo Literary Center public arts project celebrating Buffalo's literary legacy. Please visit his website at ericgansworth.com.
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