But now Pop is at the Rye Rehabilitation Centre recovering from a fall Luca's girlfriend, Anika, has moved in and Fred's just found out that Anika and Luca are having a baby of their own. Fred's mother died when she was six and she's been raised by her Pop and adoptive father, Luca, ever since. But that's another way maps lie, because it felt like the distance travelled was a whole lot further than that.' Sorrento, Victoria - 1999Fred's family is a mess. But what starts as a few friendly words in Albanian will soon change their lives forever, not to mention completely redrawing Fred’s personal map of friends, family, and home, and community.'I was twelve when everything started and thirteen by the end. Others, however, feel differently, causing friction within the community.įred, who has been trying to navigate her own feelings of displacement, ends up befriending a few refugees. Some people in town, like Luca, think it’s great and want to help. Soon after learning about the baby, Fred hears that the town will be taking in hundreds of refugees seeking safety from a war-torn Kosovo. According to Fred’s teacher, maps don’t always give the full picture of our history, but more and more it feels like Fred’s family is redrawing the line of their story. Her birth father was never in the picture, her mom died years ago, and her stepfather, Luca, is now expecting a baby with his new girlfriend. If you asked eleven-year-old Fred to draw a map of her family, it would be a bit confusing. "Timeless and beautiful, and it deserves to be read by people of all ages."-Printz Award-winning author Melina Marchetta Wolf Hollow meets The Thing About Jellyfish in Danielle Binks’s debut middle grade novel set in 1999, where a twelve-year-old girl grapples with the meaning of home and family amidst a refugee crisis that has divided her town.
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