Home Girl
When Naomi, a fourteen-year-old white girl, is placed with a black foster care family, her life takes some dramatic twists and turns.
Part of our Black Sheep imprint for young readers.
This isn’t my home. Haven’t had a proper home since ... This is just somewhere I’ll be resting my bones for a week and maybe a bit. This time next year you’ll forget who I am. I haven’t got a diddly where I’ll be by then. But I’m used to it.
New from the best-selling black British author Alex Wheatle, Home Girl is the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast in the foster care system. It is a wholly modern story which sheds a much-needed light on what can be an unsettling life — and the consequences that follow when children are treated like pawns on a family chessboard.
Home Girl is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic, and full of courage — just like Naomi. This is Alex Wheatle’s most moving and personal novel to date.
- Author
- Alex Wheatle
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Atom
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780349003252
- Genres
- contemporary, fiction, teen, family
- Release date
- 2019
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