Future rock star or friendless misfit? That\'s no choice at all. "A must-read for those kids cringing at their own identities."--Bulletin of the Center for Children\'s Books..
Erin Entrada Kelly deftly brings Apple\'s conflicted emotions to the page in her debut novel about family, friendship, popularity, and going your own way. or it might be her two new friends, who show her how special she really is. . .
It might be the music that saves her .
If she can just save enough to buy a guitar and learn to play, maybe she can change herself.
She and her mother moved to Louisiana from the Philippines when she was little, and her mother still cooks Filipino foods and chastises Apple for becoming "too American." When Apple\'s friends turn on her and everything about her life starts to seem weird and embarrassing, Apple turns to music.
Publishers Weekly called Blackbird Fly "a true triumph," and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, "Apple soars like the eponymous Blackbird of her favorite Beatles song."Apple has always felt a little different from her classmates.
In this acclaimed novel, twelve-year-old Apple grapples with being different; with friends and backstabbers; and with following her dreams.
Future rock star or friendless misfit? That\'s no choice at all
